Barra Island, Hebrides. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick seaman on board the S.S. Fridtjof Nansen, of Kristiansand, Norway. The Norwegian steamer altered course for Barra Head and was expected to be ninety miles off the Southern Hebrides at noon the next day. At ten o'clock the next morning the honorary secre- tary was informed that the steamer was then approaching Barra. Arrangements were made for the life-boat to meet her at 2.30 off Lochboisdale. The life- boat ft. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 put out at 11.30 with a doctor on board. There was a smooth sea, a moderately easterly breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the posi- tion given at 1.30, but contact was not made with the steamer until 4.10. The sick man was transferred to the life- boat and landed at Lochboisdale, where an ambulance took him to hospital with suspected appendicitis.

The life-boat reached her station at 9.15. Rewards to the crew, £24 5s. ; reward to the helper on shore, £1 Is..