SEPTEMBER 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

At 12.15 in the afternoon a message came from Dolphin Camp, Brixham, that there had been a cliff accident at Sharkham Point, Brixham, and at 12.25 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, manned by a skeleton crew. She took a small boat in tow.

A west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At Sharkham Point three lifeboatmen went ashore in the small boat. Two men had been climbing the cliff where it was most precipitous. When about fifty feet up the one above had lost his grip and fallen bodily on the other, just below him. Together they had crashed to the shore. Both were seriously injured. A doctor, coastguards, and police had gone to their help.

The two men were placed on stretchers ; transferred to the life-boat ; landed at Brixham about two o’clock, and sent by ambulance to hospital. - Rewards, £3 7s..