INJURED YOUTH PICKED UP BY BOARDING BOAT Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs two miles south of Portpatrick.

There was a gentle northerly breeze with a slight sea. It was two and a half hours after low water. At 4.7 the life-boat The Jeanie was launched and made for the scene with her boarding boat in tow. Members of the local lifesaving apparatus team and a doctor, who had climbed down the cliff, reached the youth and administered first aid.

The boarding boat went ashore in spite of difficulties from rocks, and the young man, who was now on a stretcher, was put on board her and later transferred to the life-boat. The life-boat towed the boarding boat to Portpatrick, where an ambulance took the young man to hospital in Stranraer. The life-boat reached her station at 4.45..