SICK CHILD TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN GALE Gahvay Bay. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a child suffering from appendicitis to Rossaveel for hospital treatment. There was a strong southerly gale with a corresponding rough sea, and the weather was stormy. Because of the weather conditions no other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out at noon on a flood tide with the doctor and the child on board. They were both landed at Rossaveel. The return journey of the life-boat took almost two hours against the southerly gale, and she arrived back at her station at 4.15..