Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help of the life-boat to carry out a search inshore, and at 3.25 the life- boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out in a smooth sea. There was a light northerly breeze and it was low water.

While the life-boat was searching a message was received from the coast- guard at 5.27 that the police had found the boy's body at the foot of a cJiff on the seaward side of Burgh Island. The body had been placed in a dinghy, which the life-boat took in tow to her station, arriving at seven o'clock. The boy's body was then handed over to the police. Rewards to the crew, £9 16s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..