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The Codling Bank lightvessel

Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, Irish Lights, Wexford, asking if the 1956, a request was received from the life-boat would bring ashore a man from the Codling Bank lightvessel whose mother was seriously ill. No other vessel was available, and at 3.55 the life-boat J. W. Archer was launched. There was a heavy swell and a moderate southerly breeze. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the lightvessel, took the man on board and brought him ashore. She arrived back at her station at 6.50.—Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 4s. Refunded to the Institution by The Commissioners of Irish Lights..