JULY 6TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

At 1.55 in the afternoon a doctor at Unst asked that the life-boat might he sent to Baltasound to take a sick boy, who was in need of urgent medical attention, to Lerwick ; no other boat was available. There was a south-west breeze and the sea was choppy.

At 2.30 the motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was launched and arrived at Baltasound at 6.55. Owing to an attack of vomiting the boy could not he moved at once.

When it had abated, the boy, with his parents and a nurse, went on board the life-boat and she arrived at Lerwick at 1.17 next morning, Thanks largely to the help of the life-boat the boy’s life was saved. - Rewards, £7 10s.

Repaid to the Institution..