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COMBINED OPERATION TO RESCUE BOY FROM CLIFF Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 29th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy was thought to have fallen into the sea from the Little Orme's Head. There was a light northeast breeze, and the sea was calm. At 10.2 the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station, was launched on the ebbing tide. When the life-boat reached the position given signals were flashed by the coastguard and the police indicating that the boy was still stranded on the cliff face but that he could not be seen from the top. Coastguardsmen and mountain rescue parties were making their way to him, and the life-boat, by using her searchlight, was able to help them as the light was becoming very poor. The life-boat stood by until the boy had been rescued and everyone had left the cliff. She then returned to her station, arriving at 11.20..