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Torbay, Devon.—At 5.25 on the after- noon of the 24th of August, 1954, the Berry Head coastguard rang up to say that a boy had fallen over a cliff at Sharkham Point and that a rescue party had gone to his help. At 6.34 the coastguard reported that the life- boat had been asked for, and at 6.50 the life-boat George Shee put out, with the second coxswain in charge, taking a small boat with her. The sea was calm, and a light north-westerly breeze •was blowing. The life-boat made for the position in an ebb tide and found that the rescue party had strapped the boy in a stretcher. Using the small boat, the life-boatmen trans- ferred him to the life-boat, which landed him at Brixham, where an ambulance was waiting, at 7.45.— Rewards, £5 13.5..