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The Coningbeg Lightvessel

REQUEST FROM DUBLIN At 9.15 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the Irish Lights Office, Dublin, asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the Coningbeg lightvessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 9.55 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The life-boat reached the lightvessel at 11.10 and took the sick man on board.

She arrived back at the station at 1.35 p.m. and the man was landed..