Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 11.45 p.m. on 30th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board was overdue from South Uist. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 slipped her moorings at 12.25 a.m.

on 31st October in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. After a search the man was found on Fiary island. His boat had sunk. The life-boat took the man on board, returning to her station at 9 o'clock..