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Flamborough and Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.20 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliff about two miles north west of the life-boat station. The IRB stationed at Filey was launched at 3.25. The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 3.30 in a moderate southsouth- easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water. She proceeded to the position given to find that the IRB and a helicopter had already arrived. The IRB was veered ashore on a line from the life-boat and her crew then helped the helicopter crew to fasten the casualty to a stretcher and carried him away from the cliff so that the helicopter could winch him up. The IRB crew returned to their craft and the lifeboat hauled her off from the rocks. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.45 and the IRB at 5.55 p.m..