Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the evening of the 22nd of October, 1959, the district nurse told the honorary secret- ary that the daughter of the life-boat coxswain had appendicitis and asked for the life-boat to land the child at Rossaveal pier, where an ambulance would take her to hospital at Galway.

At 9.45 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings with the second coxswain in command in a heavy swell. A strong south-westerly wind was blowing, and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat landed the child at Rossaveal and reached her station at 1.30. Rewards to the crew, £12 5s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 15s. Re- funded to the Institution by the Galway County Council..