Torbay, South Devon. At 8.40 p.m.

on ist August, 1965, the police at Paignton told the second coxswain of the life-boat that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Three Beaches. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at ten o'clock, taking with her a small boat. There was a light south-southwesterly breeze and a slight sea. It was high water. After firing parachute flares the coxswain sent in the small boat. It was found that the police and ambulance men had already strapped the boy to a stretcher. He was unconscious and had a suspected fracture of his skull. He was taken out to the life-boat and landed at Paignton harbour, where an ambulance conveyed him to hospital..