Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse stands. The life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 4.45 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours before high water. She proceeded towards the position given, keeping in R T contact with the North Aran lighthouse, and came up with the rowing boat English Rose III at 6 o'clock. The occupants were two British paratroopers who had rowed across the Atlantic from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A., but had been blown off their intended course to England (see December, 1966, issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, page 206). They were taken aboard the lifeboat which took their boat in tow and landed them at Kilronan pier. The lifeboat returned to her station at 7.40..