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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At noon on the 28th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ten-year-old boy had fallen from the top of a cliff a hundred and eighty feet high into the sea half a mile north- west of Stackpole Head. Four minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a light north-easterly wind and a calm sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat carried out a search in which a helicopter and a Royal Air Force air-sea rescue launch also took part, but the boy's body was not found, and the life-boat returned to her station at five o'clock. The next morning at 10.10 the life-boat was launched again, this time with a diver aboard. The boy's body was recovered and was landed at Tenby at 11.45.

Rewards to the crew : first service, £11 4s. ; second service, £9 16s.

Rewards to the helpers on shore : first service, £4 4s. ; second service, £4 lls.