At midday on 27th February, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that two patients needed hospital treatment.

There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a choppy sea, and the tide was flooding. As no other boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson set out at 3 p.m. with the doctor and patients on board and landed the patients at kossaveel, when they were taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.45..