TWO PATIENTS LANDED At i p.m. on nth December, 1963, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that two patients needed to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment.

There was a gale force wind from the south-west with a rough sea. It was one hour before high water. The patients were embarked and the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson set out. The two patients were landed at Rossaveel and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.35..