At 8.30 p.m. on 24th October, 1966, the nurse on Inishmaan Island informed the honorary secretary that an expectant mother on the island needed to be taken to hospital and requested that a boat be sent to fetch her. The life-boat Mable Marion Thompson slipped her moorings at9-45- I* was one hour after low water.

She embarked the patient at Inishmaan and conveyed her to Rossaveel where she was transferred to an ambulance and taken to hospital. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 2.15 a.m. on 25th October..