Galway Bay. At 8.25 p.m. on I2th May, 1965, the local medical officer received a call to go to Inishmaan island to attend a patient. The doctor tried unsuccessfully to obtain a boat to take him to the island and then asked for the use of the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson. There was a moderate southeasterly breeze and moderate sea. It was low water. The life-boat left her station at 9 p.m. and the doctor was put ashore at Inishmaan. The life-boat then waited for his return and reached her station at 12.30 a.m..