Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1958, the local doctor asked the acting honorary secretary if the life-boat would take an expectant mother from Inish- maine Island to the mainland. There was an easterly gale at the time with very rough sea conditions. The life- boat Mabel Marlon Thompson left her moorings at 3.20. She embarked the woman at Inishmaine with great diffi- culty and brought her and the doctor to Rossaveal pier, where the patient was taken by car to Galway. The life-boat reached her moorings at 11.59. Rewards to the crew, £19 5s. ; reward to the helper on shore. £1..