Galway Bay - At 4.35 p.m. on 6th March, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on Inishere Island had acute appendicitis and needed to be taken to hospital. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson slipped her moorings at 5.30 in a gale force southerly wind and a rough sea. She proceeded to Inishere and took the patient aboard.

The life-boat then conveyed the patient to Galway docks, as conditions at Rossaveel were not suitable for landing him, and he was taken to hospital. The life-boat arrived back on station at 3 o'clock..