OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.

At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with very rough seas, and no other boat could have made the passage from Port Askaig to Colonsay. The motor lifeboat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at three o’clock, reached Colonsay at 5.45 and arrived back at Port Askaig with the boy at 8.15. There a waiting ambulance took him to the air ambulance at Islay and from Islay he was flown to Glasgow. But for the help of the life-boat the boy would have lost his life. A donation was made to the Institution.

- Rewards, £17 5s., repaid to the Institution..