JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.

On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no other suitable boat was available. The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moorings at 4 P.M., took on board the patient and a nurse and reached Oban at 7.45, where an ambulance was waiting for them. An operation had to be performed at once, and had the life-boat not been able to take the woman to Oban, her life could not have been saved. The life-boat waited for the nurse to return from hospital and left Oban at 9.10, arriving back at her station just after midnight.- Rewards, £7 10s.