Stronsay, Orkneys. At 7.10 p.m. on ist June, 1-965, a doctor on Papa Westray asked for the use of the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman to take a patient to hospital at Kirkwall. The lifeboat put out at 7.30 in a moderate northwesterly wind and a moderate sea. It was low water. She arrived at Papa Westray at 9.40 and left five minutes later with the patient for Kirkwall, arriving at 12.5 a.m.

on the 2nd June. The life-boat reached her station at 3.15 a.m..