NURSE ON BOARD At noon on 3ist March, 1964, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient required urgent medical attention on the mainland. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it was low water. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left at I p.m. with the patient and nurse on board. The patient was landed at Rossaveel and taken to hospital by an ambulance waiting on the quayside. The life-boat returned to her station at five o'clock..