Douglas RNLI volunteer crew were paged last night to help the Coastguard recover a casualty from cliffs.

What had started initially for the coastguard service as a search for a missing person turned into a recovery of that missing person from the foot of cliffs at the toll gate on the Marine Drive.

In a moderate sea deputy second coswain Tony Radcliffe took the all-weather lifeboat, Sir William Hillary, out of Douglas harbour around to the cliffs below the toll gate to primarily assist the coastguard by using the lifeboat’s search lights to illuminate the scene.

Volunteer crew members Lavinia Washington and Peter Cowin used the lifeboat’s daughter boat, an inflatable dinghy, to go ashore to further assist the Coastguard.

After discussing the situation, the decision was taken thatthe best course of action would be for coastguard service staff to recover the casualty back up the cliffs to the Marine Drive.

With the casualty safely back on the Marine Drive, the dinghy and its crew along with one of the coastguards returned to the lifeboat which then made its way back to Douglas.