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The Codling Lightvessel

Wicklow.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from the Irish Lights stating that a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel was suffering from a poisoned hand and asking if the life-boat would bring him ashore At two o'clock the life-boat J. W. Archer was launched in a choppy sea. There was a moderate west-south-westerly gale, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the lightvessel, took the injured man on board, and landed him at Wicklow at five o'clock.— Rewards to the crew, £12 55.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 45. Re- funded to the Institution by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..