Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, set out with the doctor in a north-easterly gale and a rough sea. It was three hours to high water. After examining the man, who had appendicitis, the doctor returned to the life-boat with his patient.

The life-boat left the island for Kilronan to embark a nurse who accompanied the sick man to the mainland at Rossaveel.

The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.30 p.m..