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The Coningbeg Lightvessel

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service that thej brother of two men in the Coningbeg lightvessel had died. A request was made for the life-boat to take reliefs to her and land the men. At 3.15 the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched with the second coxswain in charge. The sea was calm, there was a light easterly breeze, and it was one hour and a half below low water. The life-boat put the relief men aboard the lightvessel, took ashore the two other men, and reached her station again at 8.10—Rewards to the crew, £14; xe- wards to the helpers on shore, £9 Vs.

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