INJURED WOMAN TAKEN TO MAINLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 18th February, 1963, the local nurse asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a seriously injured elderly woman to Rossaveel on the mainland, where an ambulance was waiting to convey her to hospital. No other suitable boat was available, and at 11.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out with the patient and the nurse on board. There was an east-south-easterly gale and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding. The two women were landed at Rossaveel, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.30..