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The Blackwater Lightvessel

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 28th of February, 1954, the Com- missioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat available, and at 4.15 in the afternoon the life-boat Douglas Hyde put to sea. The sea was rough with a fresh breeze blowing from the north-north-west. The life- boat took the man ashore and reached her station again at 8.25.—Rewards, £12 8s. Refunded to the Institution by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..