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FEBRUARY 2 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.45 in the afternoon information was received that the principal keeper at the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse had asked by wireless for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.55 in a light north-easterly wind, with a choppy sea. She brought the sick man ashore and returned to her station at 5.45. - Rewards, £5 3s. 6d.

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