TAKEN BY LIFE-BOAT At 10.30 a.m. on 29th December, 1963, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to attend patients on Inishmaan and Inishere Islands. As the weather was bad and as no other boat was available the honorary secretary readily agreed. There was a gale force wind from the west with a rough sea. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left at eleven o'clock with the doctor on board, and the doctor visited both islands, landing by a small boat on each occasion. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 3.45 p.m..