PERITONITIS PATIENT Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.30 a.m.

on yth January, 1964, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that the trawler Millwood of Aberdeen, which was being towed by the trawler Janwood 12 miles north-east of Nors Head, had on board a sick man suffering from peritonitis.

There was a light southerly breeze with a smooth sea. It was low water.

The life-boat City of Edinburgh launched at 9.45 and met the Millwood at 11.20. The sick man was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Wick where he was taken to hospital by a waiting ambulance. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 12.45 P-m- The life-boat was also called out on 3rd January, 1964..