Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of December, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned that a workman, who had been weather-bound in the Skelligs Rock lighthouse for a fort- night, had been taken ill and asked if the life-boat would take him ashore.

The weather was too bad for the Irish Lights vessel to land him, and at one o'clock the life-boat A.E.D. put out.

The sea was rough, and a south- westerly gale was blowing. The light- keeper lowered the man in a sling on the lee side of the Rock, and with difficulty the life-boat took him on board. She landed him at her station at 6.45.—Rewards, £15. Refunded to the Institution by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..