DECEMBER 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair Isle, was in urgent need of a doctor. A S. by W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and it was impossible to send any other vessel. The motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland left at 12.40 P.M., and reached Fair Isle at 6.30 P.M. She took on board the girl Margaret Smith, and her father and mother, and landed them at Lerwick at 12.5 A.M. next morning. The girl was taken to hospital and was operated on at once. The surgeon afterwards thanked the life-boat crew and said that their promptitude had enabled him to save the girl’s life.

Later she was killed in an air-raid. - No expense to the Institution..