INJURED BOY BROUGHT BY SKIFF TO LIFE-BOAT Wicklow. At 6.58 on the evening of the 10th June, 1962, a member of the Garda told the coxswain that a boy had fallen fifty feet down a cliff three miles south of Wicklow. The life-boat /. W. Archer was launched at 7.10 in a gentle south-south-westerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing.

A skiff manned by two men was taken in tow of the life-boat. When the lifeboat reached the position the coxswain sent the skiff away inshore with the second coxswain and three men on board. They found the boy receiving medical attention from a doctor who had climbed down the cliff, and a member of the Garda who had swum from Silver Strand was also with him.

The boy was put on a stretcher and taken in the skiff with the doctor to the life-boat. The life-boat then returned to her station, which she reached at 8.5. An ambulance was waiting to take the boy to hospital..