Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 7 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was asked by a local doctor if the life-boat could be used to convey an injured patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other suitable boat was available. There was a gale from the south-west with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat The Rankin, on temporary duty at the station, set out at 7.30 and after the patient was embarked went on to South Uist. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 2.45 a.m.

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