Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 7.20 a.m.

on llth May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Tungsha of Toiisberg was making for Thurso bay with a passanger who had suffered a heart attack. She was expected to reach the area at 11 o'clock. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) with a doctor on board was launched at 10.55. It was two hours after high water. At 11.45 the sick man, accompanied by his wife, was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Scrabster. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.15..