Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her station with the patient on board at 11.50, in a strong south-easterly wind and a rough sea. It was low water. The man was landed at Rossaveel and conveyed to hospital, and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.30 a.m..