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Puffin Lightvessel

Puffin Lightvessel was a lightvessel situated at Daunt Rock, 25 miles south west of Roche's Point near Cork harbour entrance and was in the care of the Commissioners of Irish Lights[?].

It sank on October 8, 1896 in a hurricane. The crew of eight was lost. In August 1897, the wreck of the Puffin was towed into Cobh[?] harbour.

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