KEEPER UNCONSCIOUS St. Marys, Scilly Isles. At 8.45 p.m.

on 9th March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed by Lands End radio that a keeper on Round Island Lighthouse had been found unconscious. The honorary secretary contacted the lighthouse and at ii o'clock the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched in a strong south-easterly breeze and a moderate sea.

The tide was ebbing. The patient was transferred to the life-boat on a stretcher and landed at St. Marys, where an ambulance conveyed him to hospital. The lifeboat returned to her station at 2.10 a.m.

on the following morning. The man died later in hospital..