Galway Bay.—At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 1st of June, 1954, the life- boat coxswain noticed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Galway, had gone aground at Straw Island about one mile east of Kilronan. At eleveno'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to sea. There was a heavy ground swell, a northerly breeze and fog. The life-boat found the trawler being pounded by the seas and took off two passengers, one of them a woman. The life-boat took them to Kilronan and then put out again and took off the trawler's crew of three.

Helped by another trawler, she re- floated the St. Kieran, berthed her at Kilronan, and reached her station again at 2.45. The passengers expressed their thanks.—Rewards.

£9 13s..