Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1952, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a patient, who was serious- ly ill, to Lochboisdale. Conditions were not good enough for an aircraft to make the journey, and at 5.50 the life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings in a rough sea with a moderate north- easterly gale blowing. She took the patient to Lochboisdale, some twentv miles from Benbecula, from which point the patient was taken by air ambulance to Renfrew. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 1.30 early the next morning.— Rewards, £19 2*..