SICK PEOPLE TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN GALE Galway Bay. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th February, 1962, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take two patients from Inishmaan Island to Rossaveel on the mainland. Because of the severe weather conditions and as no other suitable boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 2.30 in a northeasterly gale and a rough sea. It was low water. The life-boat proceeded to Inishmaan Island, embarked the two patients and landed them at Rossaveel.

She reached her station at 7.30..