Barra Island, Hebrides. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1959, the local doctor re- quested the use of the life-boat to take the coxswain's son, who was seriously ill, to hospital at South Uist. The life- boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 left her moorings at 3.35 in a smooth sea, with a fresh southerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. The patient was landed at Lochboisdale, where he was successfully operated on for peritonitis. He was later reported to be making good pro- gress. The life-boat reached her station at 10.45. Rewards to the crew, £20 5s..