Galway Bay. On the evening of the 21st of June, 1960, the island medical officer asked if the life-boat would take a sick child to Rossaveal on the main- land, where an ambulance was waiting to drive the child to hospital. As there was no other suitable boat avail- able, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 9.30 with the sick child on board. It was low water, the sea was slight with a light easterly wind, and the weather was thundery. The life-boat landed the child at Rossaveal pier and reached her station at 2.30 in the morning. It was later learnt that the child was operated on immediately after she had been admitted to the hospital. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, 16s..