Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a patient with appendicitis to South Uist hospital. At 1.55 the life-boat R.A.

Colby Cubbin No. 3 put out on an ebbing tide. There was a light north- westerly breeze with a smooth sea.

The life-boat came alongside the pier on the mainland at two o'clock. The patient was landed and put into an ambulance, and then the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.25..