Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that a local lobster boat Carraig Airz was flying a distress signal off the Aran coast.

The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at two o'clock in a calm sea with a light south-south-westerly breeze and an ebbing tide. She cameup with the boat, which had a crew of two, two miles north-west of Straw Island. The lobster boat's engine had broken down, and the life-boat towed her to Kilronan pier, arriving back at her station at 3.15.—Rewards to the crew, £7; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..