SMALL BOY MAROONED ON ROCK Torbay, Devon. At 5.44 on the evening of the 12th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a young boy was marooned on Cradle Rock. It was not possible for the coastguard to send down a cliff rescue party and the boy was too young to fasten himself to their ropes. It would be several hours before the tide fell enough to allow him to walk ashore, by which time it would be dark. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings at 6.20 with her boarding boat in tow. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze and a smooth sea, and it was high water.

The boy was taken off the rocks by the boarding boat, transferred to the lifeboat, and landed at the harbour at/7.10..