FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the morning of the 20th February, 1962, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that a French fishing vessel with her trawl net entangled in her propeller needed help south of the Isle of Arran. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel and Marion Thompson left her moorings in a light south-south-easterly wind and a calm sea. The life-boat found the trawler Men-Hir, which had a crew of eight, and took her in tow to Kilronan, arriving at four o'clock in the afternoon..