Hospital run THE LOCAL DOCTOR asked Barra Island lifeboat to convey an urgent maternity case from Tangasdale to Lochboisdale, South Uist. It was 0425 on Monday, March 8. With good visibility, a fresh east-south-easterly breeze and a choppy sea, the 52' Barnett lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, on temporary relief duty at Barra Island, left her moorings at 0505 and, with the woman on board, ran at full speed to Lochboisdale, where the woman was taken to hospital.

The lifeboat returned to her station and was on her moorings at 1030..