DUTCH COASTER AGROUND IN GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch coaster was burning flares and was drifting towards the shore in a southerly gale on the west side of the harbour. The life saving apparatus team had been alerted and they had managed to get a line aboard the coaster just before she went ashore. At two o'clock it was decided to send the lifeboat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3, and she made for the position in a very rough sea. It was low water. The life-boat took a hawser from another vessel in the harbour to the Dutch coaster, which was the Eendracht of Katwijk a/Zee.

As her help was no longer needed, the life-boat reached her moorings at 6.30.

The Eendracht refloated at 11.30 with no apparent damage..