EMERGENCY CALL FOR DRUG Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 2 p.m.

on 20th April, 1964, the district nurse told the honorary secretary that a sick woman at Inverie urgently needed a certain drug and it would be necessary to use the life-boat if the drug was to reach Inverie in time. The life-boat crew were at that moment assembled in readiness for an exercise and the life-boat E. M. M.

Gordon Cubbin sailed at 2.5 in a smooth sea with light airs from the south-west.

It was three hours before high water. After an uneventful passage to Inverie the lifeboat carried out an exercise and reached her station at 5 p.m..