FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 10.45 on the morning of the 15th August, 1962, Valentia radio station reported that the trawler Paschal of Lorient, which had a crew of thirteen, had fouled her propeller and needed help immediately about four miles south of Brannock Island. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to sea. There was a strong southwesterly breeze and a heavy swell. It was low water. The life-boat came up with the Paschal at 1.30, took her in tow, and made for her station, which she reached at eight o'clock..