Stronsay, Orkney-At i.io p.m. on 27th November, 1966. the doctor on Sanday asked the honorary secretary for the services of the life-boat to convey a woman suffering from acute appendicitis to hospital at Kirkwall. At 1.35 the lifeboat The John Gellatly Hyndman left her moorings in a west north westerly gale and a rough sea. It was three hours afterhigh water. The life-boat reached Sanday, embarked the patient and a nurse, and left for Kirkwall at 2.25. After the patient was transferred to an ambulance at Kirkwall, the nurse was taken back to Sanday. The Jife-boat arrived back at her moorings at 9.10..