helmsman; Crew Members John Ashford, Brian Gaunter and Derek Winning were taken ashore together with a bucket stretcher (itself on trial) and an Ashford first aid pack. The best ledge from which to embark the boy was 35ft above the sea, but the motion of the inflatable dinghy was too lively for her to receive the boy safely; so Coxswain Curnow nosed the lifeboat's bow in to the face of the ledge and, while.