At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.

At 3.45 the patient and nurse were embarked and the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, set out on a flooding tide. The patient was landed at Rossaveel on the mainland and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.45..