Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.5 p.m. on 25th October, 1965, the Inspector for Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that a carpenter on Skelligs Rock lighthouse required immediate medical attention. The life-boat Rowland Watts proceeded at 1.30 in a fresh south-easterly breeze and a slight swell.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat reached the lighthouse at 3.40. The man was taken off and later landed at Valentia, the life-boat reaching her station at 5.40 p.m..