Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.30 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Skogaland of Gothenburg, which was 180 miles off Barra, had a sick seaman on board. It was decided to wait until the trawler was off Barra Head before sending the life-boat, as conditions there would be much better for transferring a doctor.

The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 left her moorings with a doctor on board at 11.50 in a slight sea, with a south-westerly wind Wowing and an ebb tide. She met the trawler at 4.15 on the morning of the 5th of July, and the doctor went aboard. The life-boat escorted the Skogalandto Lochboisdale, where the seaman, who had a gastric stomach ulcer, was taken to hospital.

The life-boat reached her station at 12.30. Rewards to the crew, £27 Is. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 6s..