SICK MAN FROM LIGHTHOUSE LANDED Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 15th June, 1963, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a keeper on Skelligs Rock fighthouse was very ill and to ask if the lifeboat would take out a relief keeper and land the sick man. At 1.50 the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings with the relief keeper, taking the boarding boat with her. She made for Skelligs Rock in a fresh south-westerly wind, a moderate sea and an ebbing tide. The relief keeper was landed at the lighthouse, and the sick man was embarked in the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at eight o'clock. The patient was immediately attended by a doctor and taken to hospital..