Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.

The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a doctor on board, was launched at 2 o'clock. There was a moderate westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat proceeded to Inishmaan, took the patient on boa d, and proceeded to the mainlandwhere the patient was landed at Rossaveel and taken to hospital. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 6.30..