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The Coningbeg Lightvessel

Kilmore, Co. Wexford. — The Com- missioners of Irish Lights asked if thelife-boat would take relief men to the Coningbeg Lightvessel as their own boats were unavailable, and at ten o'clock on the morning of the 31st of March, 1952, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched in a choppy sea, with a moderate east-north-east breeze blowing. She put the relief men aboard the lightvessel and reached her station again at five o'clock that evening.—Rewards, £26 13s. Re- funded to the Institution by the Com- missioners of Irish Lights..