WOMAN TO HOSPITAL At 12.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a woman patient to Rossaveel on the mainland. As no other suitable boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out at 1.15 in a strong south-westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low water. The patient and a nurse were landed at Rossaveel where an ambulance was waiting to take them to hospital, and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.45 p.m..