New crew facilities were provided, along with a workshop, souvenir shop, observation room, and a boathouse to house the boarding boat, the Arun-class lifeboat sitting on a mooring.

A new Inshore lifeboat station building was constructed in 2007 at the end of Bridge Road, Belmullet, completed on 7 December, at a cost of £276,000.

[1][2] For saving the life of a man aboard the yacht Rondo, in gale-force condition, on the night of 18/19 February 2005, Coxswain Patrick Walker received a "Framed Letter of Thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution" in 2006.

[5] At 18:00 on the 25 October 1997, Ballyglass Lifeboat Mabel Williams (ON 1159) was tasked to an extraordinarily difficult rescue, a service which would take over 21 hours, and involve multiple agencies, but would cost the life of one rescuer.

Local fishermen reported voices in a cave, west of Horse Island, 18 miles (29 km) from Ballyglass, On arrival on scene, the Severn-class launched the small daughter "Y boat", with John Gaughan and Cathal Reilly on board.

Local divers Michael Heffernan and Joseph Barratt of the Grainne Uaile Sub-aqua club then volunteered to assist the lifeboat crew, and entered the cave in the Irish Marine Emergency Service (IMES) rescue boat.

There they discovered three members of the Murphy family on a ledge, but the owner of the boat, Will Ernst von Below, and diver Michael Heffernan, had not survived.

At great personal risk, Garda Ciarán Doyle then swam 1,000 feet (300 m) out of the cave, where a tow was established, and the seven people were pulled to safety.

[9] Following the tragedy in 1997, the Irish Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport inaugurated an award scheme for marine gallantry and meritorious service.