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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1960, a request was received from the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the life-boat to bring ashore an injured keeper from Tuskar Rock light- house and take out another keeper to relieve him. The life-boat Douglas Hyde put out at 6.45, with a boarding boat in tow, in a gentle southerly breeze and a calm sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat embarked the injured man with considerable difficulty and landed him at Rosslare, where he was treated by a doctor before being transferred to hos- pital. The life-boat arrived back at her moorings at 9.10. Rewards to the crew, £10; rewards to the helper on shore, 15s..