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The Coningbeg Lightvessel.

Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1960, the honorary secretary was asked by theCommissioners of Irish Lights if the life-boat could land a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel. At 9.5 the life- boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched in a moderate south-westerly wind.

There was a heavy swell, and the tide was ebbing. The man was landed at Kilmore at 12.30 early on the 4th of January and taken to hospital. Re- wards to the crew, £12 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9. Refunded to the Institution by the Commissioners of Irish Lights..