Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1957, the local doctor asked if the life-boat could be launched to take a patient urgently needing hospital treatment to the mainland. At 12.45 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out. There was a choppy sea, a moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat landed the patient at Rossa- veal and returned to her moorings, arriving at 4.15. Re wards to the crew, £10 10*.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s. Refunded to the Institution by Galway County Council..