FEBRUARY 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A request for the help of the life-boat was received from a.

medical officer at Pennan. He had a woman patient whom he wanted to send at once to the Fraserburgh hospital, but she could not go by ambulance as heavy snow made the roads impassable. He asked that the lifeboat should take her by water. A fresh S.E.

breeze was blowing, and there was a heavy swell. At 3 P.M. the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched, with a nurse on board. It was arranged that the coastguard should signal her if, in the meantime, a call came for her services at sea. No such call came, and the life-boat landed the nurse at Pennan by small boat. The same boat brought out the nurse and the patient to the life-boat ; they were both taken on board, and she landed them safely at Fraserburgh at seven in the evening. - Rewards, £10 19s. 9d.