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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.32 p.m.

on 25th February, 1966, the Caldy island steward informed the honorary secretary that the sea was too rough for the normal ferry service to take an injured boy to the mainland and requested the help of the life-boat. At 3.50 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a south west by south gale and a rough sea.

It was half an hour after low water. The life-boat reached the island and sent ashore a punt on a line. The boy, who had broken his arm, was transferred from the punt to the life-boat, which then returned to Tenby arriving at 5.5. p.m..