DOCTOR TAKEN Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 12.45 P-mon 12 th April, 1964, the honorary medical adviser asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Colonsay at 2 p.m. to attend the resident doctor there.

The honorary secretary agreed and at 2 p.m. the life-boat Francis W. 'Wotherspoon of Paisley put out in a fresh southwesterly breeze and choppy sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat reached Colonsay at 3.30. The doctor returned to the life-boat two hours later, having been unable to persuade the patient to return with him to the life-boat so that he could be taken to a hospital on the mainland. The life-boat returned to station at 7.30..