Galway Bay - At 4.10 a.m. on 6th November, 1968, it was learnt that there was a seriously ill man on Inishmaan island. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, with a doctor on board, slipped her moorings at 5.10. There was a strong east north easterly wind gusting to gale force with a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The doctor went ashore.

Meanwhile, the life-boat went to the leeside of the island to embark the patient at 8.15. Because of low water at Rossaveel the life-boat took the sick man and doctor to Galway docks, reaching the docks at 11 o'clock. The life-boat left Galway at 12.30 p.m.

and returned to her station at 3.45.

The man's life was saved..