At 5 p.m. on 7th February, 1967, news was received that a sick man had to be taken to hospital at South Uist. The sick man was taken on board the life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3. The life-boat slipped her moorings at 5.30 and proceeded to South Uist in a slight northerly breeze and smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The sick man was landed at South Uist, and the life-boat returned to her station at 12.30 a.m. on 8th February, 1967..