Boy on cliffs AT 2133 ON SUNDAY, June 27, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station that a boy had fallen 200 feet down the cliffs and into the sea at North Stack but had swum back to the cliffs and had started to climb again. The Coastguard cliff rescue team were already on their way.

At 2157 the 52' Barnett lifeboat St Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched, followed three minutes later by the ILB.

Both boats headed for the scene of the incident, some three miles distant, arriving at 2220. By this time the cliff rescue team were in position and descending the cliff. The coxswain of St Cybi, William Jones, went ashore in the ILB to talk to and reassure the boy, who was about 40' above sea level.

The boy was eventually reached by two members of the rescue team, strapped into a harness and all three were lowered into the awaiting ILB and then transferred to St Cybi which was standing by off the cliff. The boy was given hot soup and made comfortable for the passage to the lifeboat station; he remained on board until the lifeboat was rehoused at 2330 after which he was taken to hospital and detained overnight.

The ILB was rehoused at 2325..