Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 7.48 p.m. on nth October, 1966, a young army officer was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Old Castle Head and a team of men with ropes had been sent to try to reach him from the top of the cliff.

The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 8.20 in a moderate south south westerly wind and a choppy sea.

It was almost three hours after high water. She proceeded, towing a punt, to the position indicated. The punt was sent in manned by members of the life-boat crew but the sea was too rough to rescue the officer by this method. The crew of the punt reported that the coastguard party had reached the man and were taking him up the cliff. The life-boat fired all her parachute flares and also used her searchlight to assist the rescue party by illuminating the scene. When the party reached the top of the cliff the lifeboat was recalled, arriving back on station at 11.32..