Galway Bay.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 25th of September, 1957, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a woman urgently in need of an opera- tion for appendicitis to the mainland.

At 2.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson embarked the patient and put out in a very rough sea. There was a northerly gale blowing and the tide was flooding. A rough crossing was made to Rossaveal, where the patient was taken by ambulance to hospital.—Rewards to the crew, £12 13s.; rewards to the helper on shore, 12s..