Barra Island, Hebrides. At 11.30 on the night of the 18th of April, 1958, the agent for the steam trawler Buzzard, of Fleetwood, asked the honorary sec- retary if the life-boat would land a man from the trawler, who was seriously ill.

The trawler was steaming towards Muldonaich. At two o'clock on the morning of the 19th of April the life- boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 put to sea with a doctor on board. There was a moderate sea, a moderate south- westerly wind was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat met the Buzzard in the lee of the island and the sick man was transferred. The life- boat landed the man at four o'clock at Castlebay, from where he was taken to a Glasgow hospital by air ambulance.

The life-boat reached her moorings at 4.30. Rewards to the crew, £8. 8s..