Galway Bay. At ten o'clock on the night of the 29th of August, 1959, a member of the life-boat's crew saw flares being fired between Aran and the Connemara Coast. He informed the honorary secretary, and at 10.25 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings. There was a slight swell and a fresh easterly breeze. The life- boat found an open motor boat with nine people on board drifting helplessly with her engine broken down. They were taken on board the life-boat and given food and drink, and their boat was towed to Kilronan, where they were landed at 12.30. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 14s..