Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.57 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized six hundred yards off shore in Lydstep haven. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a heavy swell with a strong westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the sailing boat Cracker- jack full of water and took her crew of two on board. Almost immediately a report was received that a canoe had been washed on to a cliff near by and that a man had been seen on a ledge forty feet up the cliff. The life-boat made for the position, and using the loud hailer the coxswain persuaded the man to come down to sea level, from where he was hauled aboard the life- boat. He had a badly bruised and lacerated leg and was suffering from shock. He was given first-aid treatment on board the life-boat. The canoe was recovered on the way back, and the sailing boat and one of her crew were landed on Lydstep beach and the other two survivors were landed at Tenby.

The life-boat reached her station at 3.50. It was learnt later that the man in the canoe had gone to the assistance of the Cracker jack. Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 15s..