MATERNITY CASE At 6.40 a.m. on 23rd September, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a maternity patient to send to hospital and as he could not obtain another suitable boat he asked for the life-boat. At 7.30 the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, put out with the woman on board. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze and a calm sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat had to land the patient at Galway as the tide was too low at Rossaveel. After refuelling the lifeboat returned to her station at 6 p.m..