At 11.30 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, the local doctor reported that one of his patients was suffering from a severe hemorrhage which could prove fatal ifthere was any delay in getting her to hospital. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman embarked the sick woman, together with her husband and a nurse, and slipped her moorings at 11.49. It was five hours after low water. She proceeded to Kirkwall where the party was landed at 2.15 a.m. on :6th October. The lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving at 4.40..