Galway. Early on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, three men from Inishere Island rowed nine miles in an open boat to Kilronan to summon a doctor to attend a sick person on the island. Telephone communications with the island had broken down. The doctor asked for the use of the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, to take him to the island.

The life-boat left her moorings at eight o'clock in a light south-south-easterly breeze and a calm sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat landed the doctor on Inishere Island and then returned to her station, arriving at 11.30..