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SICK WOMAN LANDED FROM ISLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 10.15 p.m. on Thursday the 15th of August, 1963, a nurse on Inishmaan asked that the life-boat take a seriously ill patient to hospital at Rossaveel. At 10.45 the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light westerly breeze and slight sea. It was low water. The life-boat embarked the patient, a woman, and after landing her at Rossaveel, where an ambulance was waiting, returned to her station at 1.30..