Valentia, Co. Kerry—On the 24th of March, 1950, the Commissioners of the Irish Lights asked the life-boat to relieve the Skelligs Rocks and Inish- tearaght Rocks Lighthouses as, by arrangement with the Commissioners, she had been made available for emer- gency calls while their S.S. lerne was being repaired. Accordingly, at ten o'clock in the morning the life-boat B.A.S.P. left her moorings and took her boarding boat to get close to the lighthouses. There was a very rough sea with a moderate south-easterly gale blowing. She -relieved Skelligs, but the weather was too bad to relieve Inishtearaght. She therefore returned to her station, arriving at 6.30 that night. At 9.45 in the morning of the 26th, the Inishtearaght Lighthouse wire- lessed that weather conditions were now favourable; so three minutes later the life-boat put out. There was a heavy swell. She had embarked a relief keeper and food, and took the boarding boat once again. The keeper she transferred to the lighthouse, then put the food ashore and brought the other keeper to Valentia, finally reach- ing her station again at 4.15 in the afternoon. The Commissioners of Irish Lights made a donation to the Institution.—Rewards: 1st service, £26 6s. 6d.; 2nd service, £21 5s. 6d..