BOY RESCUED AFTER CLIFF FALL New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs between Llangranog and Yyns Lochtyn, and that cpastguardsmen were making for the position with cliffrescuing gear. At 3.45 a further message was received at the life-boat house, where the coxswain and the motor mechanic were standing by, asking for the help of the life-boat, and at 4.15 the life-boat St. Albans was launched. It was low water, and there was a fresh northerly wind and a rough sea. When the life-boat reached the position the coxswain found he could not go in close enough because of rocks, and he asked for the help of a helicopter. The life-boat then made for Llangranog, where she took in tow a dinghy manned by the life-saving apparatus crew, which she towed back to the cliff-face.

At 6.10, as soon as the tide had made sufficiently, the dinghy was sent in shore and rescued the boy. A message was then sent to Anglesey radio station that a helicopter was no longer required.

The boy was transferred to the life-boat and was found to have a compound fracture of the leg and possible internal injuries. A district nurse looked after him during the passage back to New Quay. After being landed the boy was taken to hospital, and the life-boat finally reached her station at seven o'clock in the evening..