PATIENT At ii a.m. on 25th April, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a man with a serious haemorrhage had to be brought to the mainland for hospital treatment. The patient was embarked on the life-boat, Mabel Marion Thompson, together with a nurse, and the life-boat left her moorings at 11.30 in a moderate south-westerly wind and a smooth sea. It was three hours before low water. The patient was conveyed to Galway Docks, because of low water at Rossaveel on the mainland, and was then taken by ambulance to hospital..