MOTHER WAS DYING At 5.10 p.m. on 23rd July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the services of the life-boat to land a member of the Barrels lightvessel crew whose mother was dying. It was a fine day with a smooth sea and light airs from the west. The tide had been ebbing for an hour. At 5.25 the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched and transferred the man to the life-boat. He was landed at 7.40, when the life-boat returned to her station..