[3] In a north-westerly gale on the 17 January 1953, the 6600-ton motor vessel Tapti of London, on passage to Newcastle upon Tyne, ran aground in the Gunna Sound between Coll and Tiree, with 62 people aboard.

Mrs E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin, late of the Isle of Man, left sufficient funds to provide four lifeboats, each costing in excess of £30,000.

[5] E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin (ON 936) was launched in gale-force conditions on 14 September 1963, to reports of a group of people trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich.

Picking up local man Mr McDonald at the head of the Loch, who knew the location of the group, five men and 2 children were rescued.

[6] On 27 October 1988, the Mallaig Arun-class lifeboat 52-21 The Davina and Charles Matthews Hunter (ON 1078) was launched to the aid of the motor fishing vessel Galilean.

Showing great skill with the handling of the Arun-class lifeboat in Force 11 conditions, Coxswain Thomas Ralston managed to tow the vessel to a safe mooring in Loch Nevis.