At 7.20 p.m. on 15th October, 1966, request was received for the life-boat to convey a patient to hospital on the mainland. At 8.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings. It was three hours before low water. The life-boat embarked the patient at Inishere and took him to Galway as it was not possible to land at Rossaveel because of the low spring tide. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 5 o'clock on i6th October..