DOCTOR'S CALL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.20 a.m. on iyth December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a young boy needed to be taken to hospital at South Uist. There were light north-easterly airs with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. At 12.50 the young boy was embarked and the life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 proceeded to South Uist where the boy was taken to hospital. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 7.30.

The life-boat was also called out on 8th and I4th November and 29th December, 1963..