Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At noon on the 21st of March. 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a child on the middle island needed medical atten- tion urgently and that no other boat was available. At one o'clock, when the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out, there was a light north-easterly wind with a calm sea and it was low water.

The child was brought to Rossaveel, where an ambulance was waiting, and was then taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..