NEEDED MEDICAL AID Clovelly, North Devon. At 11.45 p.m.

on 29th October, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by a Bideford doctor that a woman on Lundy Island needed immediate medical attention. At 12.30 a.m. the life-boat Clara and Emily Barwell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched into a moderate sea and gentle easterly breeze. It was one hour before high water. The doctor accompanied the life-boat to the is'and which was reached at 2.45. At 5.45 the life-boat returned to her station. The doctor remained on Lundy with his patient until the following day..