Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, set out at 2.30 in a moderate south-easterly breeze and moderate swell, three hours before high water. She landed the boy at Rossaveel and returned to her station at 545 P-m..