At 3.30 p.m. on igth March, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a child on Inishere island with appendicitis would have to be taken to hospital on the mainland. The sea was too rough for any local boat to make the journey, and at 4.45 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left, with a doctor on board, for the island in a strong easterly breeze. The tide was flooding. When the life-boat reached the island the child was taken on board and conveyed to Rossaveel on the mainland when an ambulance took the patient to hospital..