PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 9.30 a.m. on 25th April, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a patient from Kilronan to the mainland. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was high water. The patient and a nurse were embarked and at 10.30 a.m. the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson proceeded to Rossaveel where a waiting ambulance conveyed the patient to hospital. The lifeboat returned to her station arriving at 2 p.m..