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The Coningbeg Lightvessel

Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 10 a.m.

on 26th January, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightvessel to the mainland. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 10.30 in a gentle easterly breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding. The patient was taken off the lightvessel and landed at 1.15 p.m.

The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30..