MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port Askaig.

The life-boat Francis W. Wotherspoon of Paisley was launched at 10.15 m a strong easterly gale and in a rough sea.

It was two and a half hours after high water. The life-boat picked up the sick man at Jura and conveyed him to Port Askaig, arriving at 11.30. The man was transferred to a waiting ambulance..