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The Daunt Rock Lightvessel

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt Rock lightvessel, five miles south-south-west of Cork, had an injured man on board.. At one o'clock the life-boat Mary Stanford was launched, with Dr. John Murphy, the life-boat chairman on board, and made for the lightvessel in a choppy sea, with a strong south-westerly breeze blowing. She took the injured man to Queenstown, transferred him to a wait- ing ambulance, and arrived back at her station at eight o'clock.-»-Rewards, £19 2s..