Galway Bay. In the early hours of the 18th August, 1961, a message was received that a child in Kilronan was seriously ill, and the local doctor considered the child should be sent immediately to the hospital on the mainland. As no other suitable boat was available to take the child to Rossaveel on the mainland, the honor- ary secretary agreed to the use of the life-boat. There was a westerly wind blowing with a calm sea when the life- boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on tem- porary duty at the station, slipped her moorings. The child and the child's father were taken on board the life- boat, which made for Rossaveel, where an ambulance was waiting to take the child to hospital. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 6.30.