Swanage, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that two men in a row- ing boat two miles south of Peveril Point were shouting for help, and at 2.25 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched.

The sea was rough with a moderate westerly breeze blowing. The life- boat found the two men on a rock at Durlston Head. They had been row- ing near Peveril Ledges, had broken an oar and had been carried away by the tide. The life-boat came close to the rock, and the two men, using their rowing boat, transferred to the life- boat, which took them and their boat to Swanagc arriving at 3.15 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £6 15s..