Galway Bay - Ireland Division Following a number of search and rescue incidents in Galway Bay, the RNLI announced that an Atlantic 21 lifeboat would be allocated to Galway on a year's evaluation.

When the newly trained crew received its lifeboat in 1995 there was no boathouse so she had to be kept at the station secretary's work place - from here she was towed to a variety of launching sites.

Early 1996 saw the construction of a launching davit along with a temporary boathouse and a port-acabin serving as a crew room. The station saw a packed first year, becoming one of the busiest in Ireland.

A new Atlantic 75 was placed on station later that year and the new boathouse was completed in 1997.

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