Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 7th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that someone was critically ill on the island of Rhum. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out at 7.30 with a doctor aboard in a south- easterly gale and a rough sea. The doctor attended the patient, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at midnight..