PATIENT'S URGENT NEED At 2.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient urgently needed an operation at a mainland hospital. The weather was too poor for the air ambulance service to operate effectively. It was 2| hours before low water; there was a slight sea with thick mist and light airs from the north-west. At 3.10 the life-boat Francis W. Wotherspoon of Paisley put out for Oban with the patient and a nurse on board. At 9 p.m. her destination was reached. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.15 a.m..