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JANUARY 23RD. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.20 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the life-boat station (on Inishmore Island) was told that a girl on the island was dangerously ill and that the only chance of saving her life was to take her at once to Galway Hospital, on the mainland. No other boat was available and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at 12.45. A strong south-westerly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. ‘The life-boat reached Galway, with the girl on board, at four that afternoon and got back to her station again at one the following morning. - Rewards, £20 13s. 6d.