HELP FOR SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 6.30 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local doctor needed the life-boat's help to transfer a sick child from the Aran Isles to the mainland as no other suitable boat was available and the child needed hospital treatment. At 7 a.m.

the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson made for Rossaveel with the doctor and child aboard. There was a slight southwest wind with an ebb tide. At 10.30 the life-boat returned to her station..