Galway Bay. At 9.15 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1958, a message was received from Inishmaine Island that a sailing boat carrying turf had grounded in a nearby cove. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out in a choppy sea. There was a strong north-westerly wind and a flood tide.

The life-boat reached the entrance to the cove, but the crew of the sailing boat shone a red light at the coxswain to warn him not to enter the cove in dark- ness. It was decided therefore to wait until morning, and as the two men on board the boat were in no danger, the life-boat returned to her station, arriv- ing at 11.59, where she was secured alongside the pier. At ten o'clock the next day the life-boat put out and towed the sailing boat out of the cove to Kilronan. She finally reached her station at noon. Rewards to the crew, £14 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 7s..