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Exmouth, Devon - At 2.40 a.m. on igth May, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was lying injured at the foot of the cliffs between Otter and Brandy Head, near Budleigh Salterton, and he could not be reached from the cliff top. The life-boat Michael Stephen was launched at three o'clock in a light south-westerly wind and a moderate sea, with the honorary medical adviser on board. The boarding boat was taken for landing purposes. The casualty was reached at 4.30 and was found to be suffering from multiple injuries. After being given an injection, he was embarked on the life-boat and taken to Budleigh Salterton, where he was transferred to a waiting ambulance for hospital. The lifeboat returned to her station at six o'clock..