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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1954, a message was received from Mizen Head asking if the life-boat would take a relief keeper and stores to the Inish- tearaght Rock lighthouse. At eleven o'clock the life-boat A.E.D. put out with him in a rough sea and an ebbing tide. It was found that the conditions at the Rock were not suitable to transfer the man and stores, so the life-boat lay off until low water. She then transferred the keeper and the stores, took on board a sick keeper, and landed him at Valentia at 6.15.— Rewards, £21 2s..