Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 4 p.m.

on 26th April, 1967, the nurse on Tory Island informed the honorary secretary that an elderly man was seriously ill and needed to be moved to hospital on the mainland for treatment. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 4.45 in a fresh north westerly wind and a rough sea. It was two and a half hours after low water. The patient was taken on board at 7.20 and transferred to Burtonport, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 11.30..