Galway Bay. At 9.15 p.m. on iyth January, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he needed the life-boat's assistance to convey a badly injured man to the mainland. The lifeboat Mabel Marion Thompson left at 10 with the injured man aboard in a moderate sea, two hours after high water, as there was no other boat available. The life-boat reached the mainland and because conditions were dangerous at Rossaveel, owing to the darkness and the poor visibility, landed the injured man at Galway Docks, returning at 6 a.m. next morning..