Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At noon on the 17th of November, 1960, the life- boat coxswain received a telephone message that a sick person on the island of Rhum needed hospital treatment urgently. There was a strong south- westerly wind with a rough sea and a flood tide. As no other boat was available, the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out at 12.5, reaching Rhum at 2.20. The patient, who was on a stretcher, was embarked, and the life- boat returned to Mallaig. An ambulance was waiting, and the patient was taken to hospital, the life-boat returning to her station at 4.30..