Aith, Shetland Isles - At 9 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, at the request of the medical authorities, the life-boat was made ready to convey a doctor and a relief district nurse to the Island of Foula.

The resident nurse was seriously ill on the island which had been isolated since early December owing to continuous severe weather conditions. At 10.15 a-mon 2 ist February the life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane embarked the doctor, nurse and certain urgent provisions and proceeded to Foula. There was a strong south westerly breeze with a rough sea.

It was two hours after high water. The passage was uneventful but difficulty was experienced in approaching the small jetty on the island. Eventually the doctor and nurse were landed at 1.35 p.m. At 2.50 the doctor together with the sick nurse were reembarked and the life-boat returned to Aith, arriving at 5.50, when the patient was conveyed to hospital..