Galway Bay - At 10 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, the doctor requested the services of the life-boat to transport a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. At 11.10 the life-boat John R.

Webb, on temporary duty at the station, launched. There was a strong south easterly gale with heavy rain and a rough sea. It was high water. The sick man was transferred to an ambulance at Roassaveel at 12.45 P-m- The life-boat then proceeded to Inishere island to collect another patient who had had a heart attack, and transferred him safely to a ferry boat. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.30..