DOCTOR TAKEN TO ISLAND Galway Bay. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 6th January, 1962, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Inishere Island to attend an urgent medical case. As there was no other suitable boat available, the life-boat Mabel and Marion Thompson left her moorings at 5.45 in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat landed the doctor on Inishere Island and returned to her station at 9.15..