The Codling Bank Lightvessel
ROUGH SEAS Wicklow. At 8.15 a.m. on i8th January? X965, an Irish Lights inspector asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat J. W. Archer to take a sick man off the Codling Bank lightvessel fourteen miles east of Wicklow. The life-boat was launched at 8.50 in a strong northwesterly wind and a moderate sea. It was three hours after low water. On reaching the lightvessel the sick man was transferred to the life-boat with difficulty because of the rough seas. He was conveyed to Wicklow where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 12.40 p.m..