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Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1959, a local farmer told the honorary secretary that a bullock had fallen over a cliff east of Sheep Island and asked for assis- tance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds, which wasdue to launch for a routine exercise that afternoon, left at 1.40 with the district engineer on board. She took a boarding boat in tow. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight swell, and it was low water. On reaching the position given, three members of the life-boat's crew were put ashore in the boarding boat, and with the help of the farmer they led the bullock into the sea. The life-boat then towed it to West Angle Bay, where it was safely driven ashore. The life-boat reached her station at 4.55.

Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6..