Barra Island, Hebrides. At 10.40 on the night of the 20th of October, 1958, a message was received from the local trawlers' agent that there was a sick man on board the steam trawler Boston Gannet of Fleetwood. The skipper had asked that the man should be landed and given medical attention.

At eleven o'clock the life-boat R. A.

Colby Citbbin No. 3 put out in a calmsea with a gentle south-easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide. She em- barked the sick man and landed him at 12.30. After receiving immediate treat- ment he was sent to hospital at Oban.

Rewards to the crew, £8 15s..