Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.48 on the evening of the 12th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a boy had fallen over a cliff at Bal- scadden Bay. At six o'clock, when the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, put out, there was a moderate southerly breeze with a slight sea. It was two hours before high water.

The life-boat reached the position given ten minutes later, and the boy was found face downwards in the water. He was taken aboard the life-boat, where arti- ficial respiration was applied, and trans- ferred to a waiting ambulance on arrival at Howth. On admittance to hospital the boy was found to be dead. The life- boat returned to her station at 6.26..