First aid skills commended The first aid skills of Portpatrick lifeboat crew, honed on a recent first-aid course, were commended by a doctor who subsequently treated a casualty they had taken off a fishing vessel. The chief of operations subsequently wrote adding his own congratulations.

The station'sTyneclasslifeboatMan/ Irene Millar had launched at 2117 on 27 April 1993 to a fishing vessel whose skipper had an injured ankle which was bleeding profusely. Locating the vessel dome 11 minutes later three lifeboat crew members were put aboard to apply first aid and managed to stem the bleeding and administer entonox and oxygen. The injured man was transferred to the lifeboat and taken back to the harbour where a doctor went aboard to supervise the setting up of a drip before the casualty was taken to hospital by ambulance..