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The Conningbeg Lightvessel

MASTER OF LIGHTVESSEL Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 5.30 p.m.

on 8th January, 1964, the Irish Lights Office informed the honorary secretary that the wife of the master of the Conningbeg lightvessel was ill. There were light airs with a smooth sea, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at six o'clock and brought the master of the lightvessel ashore, returning to her station at 9.15..