APPENDICITIS Galway Bay. At 6.0 p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis requiring hospital treatment and had failed to obtain a boat for the journey to the mainland.

He requested the use of the life-boat and at 6.30 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, with the patient on board, proceeded one hour after high water in a light north-easterly wind to Rossaveel on the mainland. The patient was landed and conveyed by ambulance to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station arriving at 10 o'clock..