TAKEN TO DOCKS Galway Bay. Shortly before 9 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that a man in Kilronan had been seriously injured in a fall and required immediate hospital treatment.

Owing to the state of the tide no other boat could land the patient at Rossaveel and the honorary secretary agreed to the use of the life-boat. There was a strong westerly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 9.30 and carried the injured man to Galway Docks where he was transferred to an ambulance and taken to hospital.

The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 5 a.m. on the 5th. It was later learnt that the.man did not recover consciousness and died that night..