At 11.30 p.m. on igth July, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that a young man had been taken ill and urgently needed hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 12.30 a.m. on 20th July with the patient on board. There was a gentle west-northwesterly wind and a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The patient was landed at Rossaveal where an ambulance took him to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.30..