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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of February, 1953, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief keepers and supplies to the Skelligs Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' steamer was on duty elsewhere. At four o'clock in the afternoon the life-boat A.E.D. was launched in a moderate sea with a fresh south-easterly breeze blowing, and snow, and took the men and stores to the lighthouse. She then embarked the keepers due to return ashore, landed them, and arrived back at her station at 9.15.—Rewards, £18 15s.—refunded by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..