UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 a.m. on 3rd February 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Star of Freedom of Fleetwood had struck an unidentified object fifteen miles east-south-east of Barra Head. There was a light northerly breeze, a slight sea and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at one o'clock and proceeded towards the vessel reaching her at 1.30. The Star of Freedom was escorted by the life-boat and beached so that repairs could be carried out and the life-boat returned to her station at 2 a.m.

when she was re-housed..