FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food must be very low, and at one o'clock the motor life-boat Lloyds was launched with a supply. A south-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the life-boat could not get close inshore at the island, owing to rocks. She fired a line to the shepherds and by this means they were able to haul the food ashore in a waterproof sack. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 5.30 that evening.—Rewards, £10 8s..