Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 12.25 P-mon loth May, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the lifeboat could be used to convey an urgent surgical case from Jura Island to Islay, as the weather was too bad for the small ferry launch to be used. The life-boat Francis W. Wother spoon of Paisley left her moorings in a gale force south-southwesterly wind and a rough sea. At 12.35 she collected the patient and his sister and landed them at Port Askaig, where they were transferred to a waiting ambulance.

The life-boat returned to her moorings at 2 p.m..