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The Blackwater Lightvessel

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights rang up and asked if the life-boat would land a sick man fromthe Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat available, and at 10.30 the life-boat K.E.C.F., on temporary duty at the station, put out in a choppy sea with a light south- westerly breeze blowing. She landed the man and arrived back at her station at 2.20.—Rewards, £9 5s.

Refunded to the Institution by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..