Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 9.20 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, the local doctor reported that a sick man on Rhu, Castlebay, required hospital treatment.The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 9.45 in a moderate to fresh south-westerly wind and a comparable sea. The tide was flooding. She conveyed the patient from Rhu, Castlebay, to South Uist, and returned to her station at 5 o'clock..