Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man had fallen down a cliff at South Stack. There was a northerly breeze with a choppy sea. Ten minutes later the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched on an ebb tide with the life-boat boarding boat in tow. On reaching the position the second cox- swain, the bowman and another mem- ber of the crew took the boarding boat inshore. The body was seen to be some way up the cliff face and the three men climbed up with the life-boat's stretcher.

With the help of a coastguard who had been lowered 260 feet down they strapped the body into the stretcher and transferred it to the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 12.48..