AUGUST 29TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.

At 3.15 P.M. the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take a young woman, suffering from acute appendicitis, to hospital at Oban, as there would be no steamer until the following morning. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea.

The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose took the patient on board and sailed at 4.25 P.M., reaching Oban at 7.25 P.M. Leaving for home again at 9 P.M. the life-boat arrived at 12.45 A.M. next morning. The patient’s condition was so serious that she had to have the operation at once, and her life was saved.

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