Barra Island, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 30th of May, 1958, a local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient to hospital in South Uist. The patient, who had a haemorrhage, was given a blood transfusion, and at 11.45 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W., on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea was calm, and there was a light easterly wind and an ebb tide. The life-boat reached South Uist, landed the patient and returned to her station, arriving at 7.30. Rewards to the crew, £15. 17s..