Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seriously sick person to Lochboisdale, as the local airport was fogbound. At 11.25 the life-boat Lloyd's put to sea, with the second coxswain in command, in a calm sea and north-westerly breeze, took the patient to Lochboisdale, and arrived back at her station at six in the even- ing.—Rewards, £17 Is. Refunded to the Institution by the St. Andrew's and Red Cross Scottish Ambulance Service..