SICK MAN FROM LIGHTVESSEL LANDED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 7.50 on the morning of the 15th March, 1963, the local agent for the Irish Lights office informed the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the Barrels lightvessel was suffering from a heart complaint.

There was a gentle south-westerly breeze with a heavy swell. The lifeboat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 8.20 on a flooding tide. She reached the lightvessel at 9.33, and the sick man was taken on board. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.20, and the patient was landed..