Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. •— At five in the evening of the 15th of No- vember, 1948, an urgent call was received for the life-boat to take a woman, who was suffering with acute appendicitis, to Lochboisdale, in South Uist. The motor life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings at 5.45 in a north- westerly breeze with calm sea, and landed the patient at Lochboisdale.

From there the patient was taken by road to Benbecula and put on an aeroplane for Glasgow. The life-boat reached her station again twenty minutes after midnight.—Rewards, £16 14s..