Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 29th of May, 1958, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient urgently needing surgical help to the mainland.

At 3.40 the life-boat William and Harriott, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a calm sea. There was a light north-westerly wind and it was high water. The life-boat em- barked the patient and took him to Rossaveal, where an ambulance con- veyed him to hospital. The life-boat reached her station again at 7.30.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..