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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.23 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a man had fallen over the cliff between Manobier camp and Lydstep and that the police had asked for the help of the life-boat. The life- boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 12.28. The sea was calm with a light northerly breeze, and it was one hour before low water. On reaching the scene of the accident the coxswain decided to send some of the crew ashore in a small boat to rescue the injured man while the life-boat stood off. The injured man together with a nurse and a man who had climbed down to the beach to tend the injured man were brought to the life-boat, which landed them at Lydstep. There the injured man, who was a gunner from the anti-aircraft artillery school at Manobier, was put into a waiting ambulance. The life-boat reached her station at two o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 10s..