St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.40 a.m. on ist January, 1966, the area commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade informed the honorary secretary that a doctor on Sark requested the lifeboat's assistance in transporting a sick child with her mother to the hospital at Guernsey.The life-boat Euphosyne Kendal left at i p.m. in a south westerly gale force wind and a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat sailed to the Island of Sark with two St. John Ambulance men aboard and took the girl and her mother back to Guernsey, returning at 3.45..