GIRLS RESCUED Ilfracombe, Devon. At 7.55 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the police reported that two girls, missing from Lee Bay, were believed to be trying to walk to Ilfracombe around the rocks. A helicopter was airborne and at 8.10 the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a westerly gale, very rough sea and ebbing tide. The helicopter spotted the girls to the east of Lee Bay, but could not get near to them because of the cliffs. The life-boat was also unable to get near owing to the rocks and rough sea, but helped the coastguard cliff rescue party by giving advice by loud hailer and using her searchlight. The girls were rescued by the coastguard and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.45 P-m-.