Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 2.15 with the doctor on board in a fresh south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was nearly low water.

After the doctor had examined her the child was embarked in the life-boat and taken to Rossaveel, where an ambulance was waiting to take her to hospital. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 6.45..