PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 11.40 a.m. on zyth January, 1965, a surgeon at Kirkwall hospital asked the honorary secretary if a life-boat could take an emergency patient from the Island of Eday to the hospital. The lifeboat The John Gellatly Hyndman was launched in a gentle easterly breeze and slight sea at 12.5 p.m. It was one hour before low water. She arrived at the island at 12.55 when the patient was embarked arriving at Kirkwall at 2.40 The life-boat reached her station at 6.15 p.m..