On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out at 10 o'clock. There was a northerly breeze and a calm sea. The man was put ashore at Rossaveel in the boarding boat, which had been taken along, and the life-boat reached her station at 1.45 p.m..