Galway Bay. At noon on the 5th of March, 1959, a woman living on Aran Island, who had just received news of the death of her father, asked if the life-boat would take her to the mainland as no other transport was available. At 12.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings with the woman on board. There was a rough sea, with a very strong south- westerly wind blowing and a flood tide.

The woman was landed at Rossaveal, and the life-boat reached her moorings at 3.15. The woman made a donation to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; reward to the helper on shore 14s..