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APRIL 15TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the evening a young man, a visitor to Brixham, fell from the cliffs between Landscove Camp and Berry Head and was severely injured. His cries for help were heard by another young man, walking along the coast path. He went for help, and news of the accident came through the police and the coastguard to the life-boat station. The lifeboat mechanic was ill and the bowman absent, and with a crew of only four the motor lifeboat George Shee was launched at 8.42, with her boarding boat in tow. By the light of her searchlight she found the man collapsed on the rocks. Two life-boatmen rowed the boarding boat to the rocks and with much difficulty, lifted the man into her and brought him out to the life-boat. She landed him at 9.36. He sent a letter of thanks. - Rewards, £5 18s..