APPRECIATION RECEIVED Aith, Shetlands. At 2.40 p.m. on I4th August, 1965, the local doctor was told by the district nurse on the Island of Foula that a patient was seriously ill. Her removal to hospital was necessary and the assistance of the life-boat was requested.

At 3.15 the life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a moderate to fresh south-easterly breeze and a rough sea.

The tide was ebbing.

The approach to the small pier at Foula was difficult because of the wind, but the life-boat managed to go alongside at 7.35. The stretcher party arrived with the patient and she was taken aboard. The fife-boat left at 7.55, arriving at Aith at 12.20 a.m., where the patient was transferred to an ambulance. The hospital authorities later reported the patient's condition was satisfactory and conveyed their appreciation of the careful manner in which the life-boat crew had carried out their service..