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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 8.5 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man who had fallen down the cliff at Ramsey Island was injured, and that the services of the life- boat might be required. The fact that the life-boat was needed was later con- firmed, and the life-boat Swyn-y-Mor (Civil Service No. 6) was launched, the boarding boat with a stretcher on board being taken in tow. There was a gentle westerly breeze and a moderate sea, and the weather was overcast and showery.

It was two hours before low water.

Three of the crew of the life-boat landed on the island and went to the farmhouse, where a doctor was attending the in- jured man. The patient was transferred by stretcher to the boarding boat and then to the life-boat, which landed him at Forth Stinnan, where an ambulance was waiting. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 10.45. Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 12s..