JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s Day. A very strong south-easterly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea, and as no other boat could make the passage the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched to take the priest.

She left at 9.30 in the morning and arrived back an hour later. - No expense to the Institution..