Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 5.15 p.m. on 19th October, 1967, the coxswain was informed that there was a sick man on Tory Island.

Owing to weather conditions it was impossible for another boat to reach the island. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 6.15 in a south westerly gale and very rough sea. The tide was flooding. The patient was embarked and brought to Burtonport where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.

The life-boat returned to her station at 4.30 a.m. on 20th October..