DRAGGING HER ANCHOR At 9.30 p.m. on ioth May, 1965, the coast life-saving service reported that a fishing vessel was in difficulties off the coast north-west of Galway Bay. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to sea at 10 p.m. in a strong south-easterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat found the trawler Elsie Mabel of Galway with her engine broken down, dragging her anchor and drifting into a lee shore. She had a crew of three. The trawler was taken in tow to Rossaveel, and the life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5 a.m. on the 2Oth May..