MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th August, 1962, the Wicklow honorary secretary asked if the Arklow life-boat would land a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel as the man's father was dangerously ill.

At 7.28 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched in a fresh south-westerly breeze, a choppy sea and a flooding tide.

She reached the lightvessel at 10.20, took the man on board and landed him at Wicklow at 12.55. She then returned to Arklow, arriving at four o'clock in the morning..