Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 30th of October, 1956, the local doctor tele- phoned the honorary secretary to ask him if the life-boat would take an injured person to the mainland. As the tide would have been unsuitable for the life-boat to land the man at Rossaveal on the mainland earlier, it was decided to assemble the crew at eleven o'clock. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out at 11.15.

The weather was calm, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat arrived at Rossaveal and landed the injured man.She then returned to her station, arriving back at 12.30.—Rewards to the crew, £12 5s.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s. Refunded to the Insti- tution by the Galway County Council..