Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other suitable boat available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson embarked the patient and left her station at 2.45, with the second cox- swain in charge. There was a slight swell, a northerly breeze was blowing, and the weather was fine. The life- boat took the injured man to Rossaveal and returned to her station, arriving at six o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £12 5s.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s. Refunded to the Institution by the Galway County Council..