Swanage, Dorset.—At 6 P.M. on the 21st August the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that a man had fallen 150 feet over the cliff near Old Harry Rocks, and was badly injured. Owing to the difficulty of trying to haul him up the cliff it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Thomas Markby. She left at 6.4 P.M., taking a small boat in tow, and carrying, in addition to her crew, the honorary secretary, a doctor and a policeman.

A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. When the life-boat arrived at the scene, the small boat wasmanned by two life-boatmen, the doctor and the policeman, and was rowed in towards the cliff, where the man was seen floating. One of the life-boatmen went overboard with a line and got him into the boat, but he was found to be dead. The life-boat brought the body to Swanage and returned to her station at 7 P.M.—Rewards, £5 17s..