YOUTH CLUNG TO ROCK Ilfracombe, Devon. At 12.5 a.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that one of two youths who had been at Woody bay, Lynton, had returned to raise the alarm that the other was missing. At 12.30 the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched into a slight sea with gentle north-westerly winds. It was high water.

The life-boat searched with searchlight and parachute flares, and about 3 a.m. the youth was found clinging to a rock which was surrounded by sea. Guided by the life-boat's searchlight, police and helpers rescued him. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.15..