At 8.30 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, a message was received that a man had fallen from the pier and had sustained severe head injuries. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat Mabel Marian Thompson left her moorings at 9 o'clock and took the injured man to Galway.

There was a smooth sea and an easterly breeze. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.30 a.m. on ist August..