TO LIGHTVESSEL Wicklow. At 6.45 p.m. on 2ist June, 1965, Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Codling Bank lightvessel as his mother was seriously ill. This was agreed to and at 7 o'clock the life-boat J. W.

Archer was launched in a moderate southerly breeze and a moderate sea.

The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the lightvessel at 8.45, took the man on board and landed him on the east pier at 10.35 p.m..