AN IRISH LIFE-BOAT AS AMBULANCE Galway Bay.—On the 12th of March, 1947, the Kilronan doctor asked that the life-boat should take him to a man who was very ill at Inisheer. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and no ordinary boat could put out. With the doctor on board the motor life-boat K.C.E.F. left her moor- ings at 1.0 in the afternoon. The doctor found that the sick man must be operated on at once and the life-boat took him to Casla. There an ambu- lance was waiting to take him to Galway Hospital and after the operation it was learnt that he was out of danger. The life-boat arrived at her station again at 8.45 that evening.—Rewards, £18 Is.

A donation to the funds of the Institu- tion was made by the patient's brother..