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UK weather: Giant wave injures couple as they watch Storm Imogen batter coast
Wind speeds should ease into Tuesday, but there is still a chance of gales in Wales, along the Channel and coastal parts of East Anglia
A couple were injured after they were struck by a large wave while trying to photograph the stormy conditions in Cornwall.
The woman was swept 50ft along the walkway and into one of the boats laid up on the quay for the winter.
Her partner was washed a shorter distance across the quay and into railings which stopped him being swept into sea.
A group of four RNLI volunteers and a local charter-boat skipper immediately went to help the couple.
The woman was found extremely dazed and confused, with multiple head injuries and a broken arm.
The volunteers rang 999 for an ambulance and helped the injured woman to shelter near the lifeboat station, as well as contacting another lifeboat volunteer and off-duty paramedic, who responded from home nearby and provided further medical care until the ambulance arrived.
The woman was taken to hospital, and her partner was taken into the lifeboat station by the RNLI volunteers to dry-out before being given a lift back to his car at 6pm.
Also in Cornwall, the coastal search was being resumed for 54 year old RSPCA inspector Mike Reid who is feared to have been washed into the sea on Sunday afternoon as he went to the rescue of 30 stranded gannets on rocks at Porth Chapel, near Penzance
Meanwhile, parents and coastguards have slammed a primary school for taking children for a stroll along the beach - just as Storm Imogen hit the coast.
The windswept youngsters were spotted on the seaside at Hill Head, near Fareham, Hants, as huge waves pounded the shore with gales of up to 100mph.
Hill Head Coastguard posted a picture of the scene on Twitter and wrote: 'Amazing - one of the off duty coastguards just saw this group of primary school children on the beach at Salterns.
Several people have been injured, including two children aged five and seven, who were taken to hospital on Monday morning after a stone wall fell on them in Bretforton, near Evesham, Worcestershire.
It came less than two weeks after the local authority inspected the wall and found no immediate danger to the public.
A man in his 70s had a broken leg and his dog was killed after a 5ft garden wall blew on to them in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, shortly before 8am on Monday.
In Bristol, a man in his 40s was injured after trees fell on to a three-storey block of flats.
Those who had lucky escapes included a father and daughter near Exeter, Devon, who had a 30m (100ft) tree blown on to their car outside their house, minutes before they were due to leave for school.
Conditions out at sea reached "phenomenal" states, with waves topping 16m (52ft 6in) and a monster of 19.1m (63ft) recorded off St Ives on Monday, the Met Office said.
Fastnet lighthouse, off the south west of County Cork, recorded sustained winds of up to 121mph.
Met Office forecaster Emma Sillitoe said winds had hit 96mph at the Needles off the Isle of Wight. Speeds should ease into Tuesday, she added, but there was still a chance of gales in Wales, along the Channel and coastal parts of East Anglia.
"It is really going to be into (this) morning that places have lighter winds," she said.
"There will still be some strong winds along the coast of Devon and Cornwall but for most places (it) will be a more settled day."
Coastguards issued a warning after schoolchildren were pictured on Monday standing on a beach on the Solent as Storm Imogen hit.
The group were spotted on the beach at Hill Head, near Southampton, Hampshire. Coastguards posted a photograph on Twitter, adding that they were primary school children "on an organised trip".
About 55 Environment Agency flood warnings are in place amid the heavy downpours calling for "immediate action", particularly in the South West and the Midlands, where parts were expected to see around 1.5ins (40mm) of rain during Monday.
A further 182 less severe flood alerts were in place.
In Wales, Bridgend town centre was closed by police as strong winds blew tiles from roofs. A wind turbine also caught alight in high winds.
Several schools in Cornwall were closed after power cuts and a car parked by Newquay's Fistral beach was almost submerged by windswept sand.
In neighbouring Devon, Barnstaple civic centre was damaged and the refit of the frigate HMS Argyll at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth was suspended after a hangar door was damaged.
Meanwhile a Lloyds Bank branch in Yatton, north Somerset, had its roof blown off.
The Forestry Commission was forced to close several forests due to strong winds.
DFDS and P&O ferries between Dover and Calais were affected, while services from Liverpool to Dublin and from Newhaven to Dieppe were cancelled.
There were major delays and cancellations on Brittany Ferries crossings between south-coast ports and northern France and Spain.