Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the evening of the llth of October, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick man from Barra to South Uist, as the air ambu- lance could not land because of tidal conditions. At seven o'clock the life- boat Lloyd's put out in a rough sea and southerly breeze. She took thepatient to South Uist and arrived back at her station at 2.30 early on the morning of the 12th.—Rewards, £19 2s. Refunded to the Institution by the St. Andrew's and Red Cross Scottish Ambulance Service..