Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the night of the 9th September, 1961, the local medical officer asked for the use of the life-boat to bring a sick child from Inishmaan to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other suitable boat was available, the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 10.45 in a south-easterly breeze and a calm sea.

It was low water. The child was brought from Inishmaan to Rossaveel, and the life-boat reached her station at five o'clock in the morning..