[3] On 31 March 1932, the lifeboat mechanic at Barra Island witnessed the steam trawler Eamont, of Fleetwood, hit a submerged rock as she headed to Castlebay.

[6] Relief 45ft Watson-class lifeboat Duke of Connaught (ON 668) was launched at 9:00 on Sunday 5 September 1943 to the 9000-ton steamship SS Urlana, with a crew of 40 men, which had run aground 40 miles (64 km) away at Idrigill Point, on convoy passage to London from Buenos Aires.

The crew of the Urlana has set about a transfer to the Thurland Castle, another steamship from the same convoy, which was standing by, and the lifeboat arrived at 14:15 to find the last 15 men in their own motor-powered ship's boat.

Conditions too difficult to head for home, the lifeboat set out for Carbost, Loch Harport, overcoming their own engine problems en route.

The lifeboat self-righted, and the crew were OK, with just the odd minor injury, but the boat had engine problems, a failed radar and windscreen wipers, and it was decided to return to port.

Coxswain Alastair Campbell of Islay lifeboat said they were the worst conditions he had encountered in 17 years as a lifeboatman, and in his previous career as a merchant seaman.

She was funded by the generous bequest of Edna Windsor, who died in Malaysia in 1993, along with further legacies from Elizabeth Robertson Brechin, Irene Isabel Seaman, Evelyn Mary Stonehouse and Elsie Taylor.

At a ceremony on 24 April 1999, Brenda MacInnes, granddaughter of Murdo Sinclair, Barra Island's first Coxswain, named the lifeboat 17-12 Edna Windsor (ON 1230).