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SERVICE TO SARK St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 ajn. on 3Oth January, 1965, the St. John Ambulance brigade informed the honorary secretary that a sick person on Sark needed to be transported to Guernsey and requested the services of the life-boat. At 1.45 p.m. the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal proceeded to Sark with three members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade on board. There was an east-north-easterly gale and a rough sea, the tide was flooding.

At 3.15 the life-boat reached Sark, the patient was embarked and some twelve minutes later the life-boat was returning to Guernsey. The patient was landed at 4.30 and the life-boat returned to her station at 5 p.m..