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The Barrels Lightvessel

Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.30 a.m.

on i6th May, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off the Barrels lightvessel. There was a light southerly breeze and a slight sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched on the ebbing tide and at 11.25 embarked the sick man, landing him later at Kilmore and returning to her station at 5.30 p.m..