Galway Bay.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of February, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a very sick woman to the mainland in order that she could be sent to Galway hospital. At 5.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out. There was a slight swell and a moderate north-westerly breeze.

The tide was half flood. The life-boat embarked the patient, took her to Rossaveal, where an ambulance was waiting, and returned to her station, arriving at ten o'clock. The woman's life was saved.—Rewards to the crew, £13 10s.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s. Refunded to the Institu- tion by the Galway County Council..