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The Arklow Lightvessel's Tender Willie Wag

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 12.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the Arklow lightvessel wirelessed that her tender Willie Wag, of Arklow, with a crew of four, had broken down after leaving the lightvessel. This message was heard on a private wire- less set and was passed to the life-boat station. At 1.2 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched in a rough sea and a moderate north-westerly gale. She found the Willie Wag four miles north- north-west of the lightvessel under sail. The tender's crew made tem- porary repairs to her engine, and she went to Arklow harbour escorted by the life-boat, which reached her station again at 4.15.—Rewards, £10 14s..