Mallaig, Invernesshire - At 8.55 p.m. on yth May, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on the Isle of Rhum needed to be removed to hospital immediately, and as no other suitable craft was available it was requested that the life-boat E. M. M.

Gordon Cubbin be used. She left her moorings at 9.10 in a moderate southeasterly wind and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the Isle of Rhum at 11.30 and embarked the patient. She then returned to Mallaig, transferred the patient to the waiting ambulance, and arrived back on station at 1.30 a.m..