Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of December, 1954, the doctor at Kilronan asked if the life-boat would take an eighty- three-year-old man in urgent need of surgical treatment from Inishmaine Island to the mainland. At two o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out, taking a nurse with her. The sea was calm, there was a light northerly breeze, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat took the patient on board and landed him at Rossaveal. She then embarked three life-boatmen, who had been stranded 011 the mainland after taking a rescue life-boat to Baltimore, took on board mail and returned to her station, arriving at 7.45.—Rewards, £6 15s..