Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 4 p.m. on 24th February, 1967, Malin Head radio station informed the honorary secretary that a man who was seriously ill on Tory Island needed urgent hospital treatment. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 5 o'clock in a gale force south easterly wind and a very rough sea. It was five hours after low water. She proceeded to Tory Island and took off the patient. The life-boat then conveyed him to Burtonport where he was transferred to an ambulance. The lifeboat returned to her station at 3 a.m. on 25th February, 1967..