Galway Bay. At 3.50 p.m. on ist December, 1965, the local doctor notified the honorary secretary that a five-year-old boy who had a broken leg needed transport to hospital on the mainland. No other boat was available for this purpose, so the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at station, set out at 4.30 p.m. in a south-easterly gale and a heavy swell. It was one hour before low water. The life-boat took the patient to Rossaveel and returned to her station at 8 p.m..