Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1953, the Northern Lighthouse Board reported that a man in the Barrahead light- house was ill and needed immediate medical attention. The weather was too bad for the board's boat to put out, and at 12.55 the life-boat Lloyd's put to sea with a doctor and, in a rough sea and southerly gale, made for Barrahead. She took the sick man on board and landed him at Castlebay, reaching her station again at 6.30.—• Rewards, £12 19s..