Galway Bay - At 7.30 p.m. on 25th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a report that distress flares had been seen about a mile south east of the North Aran light. At 8.5 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched.

There was a strong south westerly wind, the sea was rough and the tide was ebbing.

She made a search and found the 46-foot lobster boat Muir Ara, of Aran, with a crew of two, five miles north west of Kilronan. The boat had a broken fuel pipe and was drifting, so the life-boat towed her to Kilronan, arriving at 10.15 p.m..