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The strong south westerly wind was causing a rough and confused sea, and the swell was estimated to be 10 to 12 high at times.

With great skill and determination, Coxswain Jones succeeded in reaching a position from which he was able to stem the tide and wind during the final approach, at the same time keeping just a little ahead of a heavy backwash sweeping in from the north.

The man was crouching on the southeast corner of a large exposed rock, the face of which was known to be steep-to.

Coxswain Jones told his son that he would put the stem of the boat against the rock, and instructed him to stand by to grab the man and drag him into the boat: he stressed that it was of the greatest importance to succeed on the first attempt. .

The boarding-boat was taken in to the rock face and, with great skill and courage Coxswain Jones was able to hold her in position long enough for Eric to grab the man and drag him over the gunwale into the boat. It took tremendous determination for a 14-year-old boy to hold on to a 13-stone man and eventually drag him aboard despite the rising and falling of the boat in the heavy swell.

With the survivor safely on board, the boat was backed off and returned to the lifeboat station through a gap in rocks estimated to be about 16 The man was taken off the rock at 2351 and landed at 2359, shocked and exhausted into the care of the honorary medical advisor. , . „ For this service the bronze medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain G J Jones and an inscribed wrist watch to' his son Eric. A medal service certificate was awarded to D. J. B. Lewis..