BOY SERIOUSLY ILL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 5.10 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a six-year-old boy who was seriously ill to hospital at South Uist. The lifeboat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate northwesterly wind and a corresponding sea.

The tide was flooding. The boy was landed at South Uist and the life-boat returned to her station at 11.30 p.m..