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The Coningbeg Lightvessel

Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1956, the office of the Irish Lights in Dublin telephoned that there was an injured man on the Coningbeg light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would bring him ashore. At five o'clock the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a strong west - north - westerly breeze, and it was high water. The injured man was transferred to the life-boat and brought ashore, arriving at Kilmore at 7.55.—Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 16s. Refunded to the Institution by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..