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The Coningbeg Lightvessel

Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 6 p.m.

on 27th May, 1967, the honorary secretary was asked by the Irish Lights Office if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel whose mother was seriously ill. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 6.5 with a relief lightvessel crew member on board. The man was put aboard the lightvessel and the second man, whose mother was ill, was landed at 9 o'clock..