PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At i p.m. on 19th December, 1965, the local doctor asked for a woman patient to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mary Stanford^ on temporary duty at the station, set out at i .45 in a light northerly air and a calm sea. It was one hour before high water. The life-boat landed the sick woman at Rossaveel, returning to her station at 5 p.m..