Swanage, Dorset. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the Swanage ambulance station that a man had fallen down the cliffs near Ballard Point. At 2.41 the life- boat R.L.P. was launched with the honorary medical adviser on board.

It was low water, the weather was cloudy and overcast, and there was a moderate swell with a light south- easterly breeze blowing. The life-boat took a rowing boat in tow. The posi- tion of the man who had fallen was indicated by a young man on the fore- shore, and the coxswain sent in the small boat with the second coxswain in charge and a crew of two. When the boat reached the shore the man was found to be dead, and his body was taken to the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 3.18. It was later learnt that the man who lost hislife had gone to the help of a young German student who had been in difficulties while climbing the cliffs, The student managed to reach safety.

Rewards to the crew, £8 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..