INJURED BOY BROUGHT BACK TO HARBOUR IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.58 on the evening of the 18th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a twelve-year-old boy had fallen over the cliff between the Baily lighthouse and the Nose of Howth. The local fire brigade had reached the boy, who was injured, and they asked for the help of the life-boat to bring him to an ambulance. The life-boat A.M.T. put out at 7.8 with a small boat in tow in a westerly gale and a slight sea. It was an hour and a half before high water.

After reaching the scene a few minutes later the small boat went close inshore with a stretcher, and the boy was brought to the life-boat, which then returned to Howth harbour west pier, where he was put into an ambulance.

The life-boat also brought back three firemen who would have had difficulty in climbing back up the cliff face..