Galway Bay.—At 9.45 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of October, 1953, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seventy-four-year-old man, who was seriously ill, to the main- land, as no other boat was available.

At noon the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out in a choppy sea and a moderate north-westerly breeze, with the patient on board. She took him to the mainland and arrived back at her station at four o'clock. The man was operated on that evening, and his life was saved.—Rewards, £14 15s. Refunded to the Institution by the Galway County Council..