Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of November, 1948, a telephone message was received from Vatersay Island asking for help to be sent for a maternity case. A south-east gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the motor life- boat Lloyd's was launched at 5.15 with a doctor and nurse aboard. She took them to.Vatersay and arrived back at her station at 7.15.—Rewards, £7 11s..