Stornoway, Orkneys - At 8.30 p.m.

on I2th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the m.f.v. Flower that a member of her crew had severely injured his leg. The lifeboat, The Rankin, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 9.25 with a doctor on board. There was a fresh east-south-easterly wind and a rough sea.

It was two hours after low water. The life-boat met the m.f.v. Flower off Lumpan Head, where the doctor was transferred to the vessel and tended to the casualty. Both the Flower and the lifeboat then proceeded to Stornoway, where the life-boat returned to her moorings at i.io a.m..