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FELL ON ROCKS Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.6 p.m. on igth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the rocks at the Dhoon. The lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 4.25, towing a small boat and carrying two doctors. There was a light westerly wind, with a moderate sea, and a flooding tide. The life-boat waited off Dhoon beach while the small boat was sent ashore to pick up the boy. After medical attention from the two doctors he was transferred to the life-boat and from Laxey he was taken by the police to hospital, suffering from a severe scalp wound and bruising on his back and arms.

The life-boat reached her station at 8.20..