Gabvay Bay. At 4.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1960, the local medical officer asked for the life- boat to take a patient, who was in need of immediate hospital treatment, to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other boat was available, permission was given. There were light north-easterly airs and a calm sea. At 4.45 the life- boat Mabel Marion Thompson em- barked the patient, who was a young girl, and the doctor and made for the mainland. The girl was landed at Rossaveel pier, and the life-boat re- turned to her station at 8.15..