MATERNITY CALL At n p.m. on I2th January, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a maternity patient on Inishmaan Island needed urgent medical attention.

There was a strong easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it was low water. As no other boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson set out at 11.30 with the doctor on board. The doctor was landed at Inishmaan and after he had attended to the patient was brought back to the station at 3.30 a.m..