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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.45 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the police telephoned the signal station asking for help in rescuing a man stranded on the cliff face between Moulin Huet and Petit Bot on the south side of the island. As the St. John ambulance launch was not afloat, the honorary secretary was informed, and the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at six o'clock.

The sea was calm with a moderate north-easterly breeze blowing and anebb tide. When the life-boat reached the position, it was found that St. John ambulance men had lowered the stranded man to the shore, where two of his friends were waiting. The three men were brought to the life-boat in a rubber dinghy. They were landed at Petit Port Bay, and the life-boat reached her station at 7.10. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 13s..