Galway Bay. At 11.45 on the morn- ing of the 1st of May, 1958, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a patient in urgent need of hospital treatment to the mainland. After embarking the sick woman, the life- boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out at 12.15 in a calm sea. There was a light westerly wind and a flooding tide.

The woman was landed at Rossaveal and taken to hospital by ambulance.

Rewards to the crew, £11. 4s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..