BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional Hospital. There was a fresh north-westerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water. As no other boat was available at the time, the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.45 and went to the pier. The woman was about to be put aboard the life-boat when she started labouring. She was taken to the life-boat store where the baby was born.

During this time the life-boat's engines were kept running in case an emergency arose, and it was not until two o'clock that the doctor decided that the woman need not go to hospital. The life-boat then returned to her moorings..