At 8.25 a.m. on i ith February, 1966, the Irish Lights Office rang the honorary secretary's home to ask for the services of the life-boat Dunleary II to take two sick men off Kish light tower. As the honorary secretary had already left for work his wife took the message and relayed it to the coxswain and informed the honorary secretary. The life-boat left at 9.15 in a moderate easterly breeze and moderate sea. It was one hour after low water. The two sick men were safely lowered on to the life-boat and brought ashore by 11.35 a.m., where an ambulance and a doctor were waiting..