SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At noon on the 27th February, 1962, the local doctor received an urgent message to go to Inishmaan Island to attend a sick woman. As no other suitable boat was available, the doctor asked for the use of the lifeboat to take him to the island. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 1.30 in a strong northeasterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The doctor was landed on the island and the patient was eventually embarked in the life-boat at 5.30. The life-boat brought the sick woman to Rossaveel, where an ambulance was waiting to take her to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at nine o'clock..