Longhope, Orkneys - At 11.15 a.m.

on 2 ist January, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient needed urgent hospital treatment.

The life-boat T.G.B., with the patient on board, was launched at 11.50 in a fresh south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was low water. She proceeded to St.

Margarets Hope where the patient was landed and conveyed to hospital in a waiting ambulance. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.20 p.m..