Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.45 P-m- °n 22nd December, 1965, a doctor on Eday Island told the honorary secretary that a three-year-old boy had been run over by a motor vehicle and had sustained a broken leg and head injuries, and had since developed symptoms requiring immediate hospital attention.

The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman was launched at 11.5 in a gentle south-easterly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat arrived at Eday at midnight and took the doctor and patient aboard, arriving at Kirkwall at 1.30 a.m.

After waiting for the doctor the lifeboat took him back to Eday and arrived at her station at 5 a.m..