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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a flooding tide, taking a dinghy in tow. The weather was fine with light airs. The life-boat reached Monkstone beach at 7.28, and with the help of the police the injured man was taken off the beach on a stretcher to the dinghy, from which he was then trans- ferred to the life-boat. The life-boat returned to her station at 7.46. There the injured man was put into an ambulance which was waiting..