APPENDICITIS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 4.50 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor in Papa Westray that he had an acute appendicitis case requiring immediate hospital treatment. As no other vessel was available it was decided to send the lifeboat to convey the patient to Kirkwall,and The John Gellatly Hyndman set out at 5.15 in a moderate to fresh south-westerly wind and a corresponding sea. It was high water. The life-boat arrived at Papa Westray at 7 p.m. and returned with the patient on board, reaching Kirkwall at 10 p.m. The patient was taken to hospital by ambulance and the life-boat reached her station at 12.10 a.m..