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Swanage, Dorset. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1958, a boy told the coxswain that two bathers were making little headway in their efforts to reach the shore a hundred and fifty yards north-north-east of Peveril Point. They were being carried by the strong ebb tide towards the broken water on Peveril Ledge. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 3.50 in a slight sea. She found the bathers, who were two Swiss girls, and took them on board. They were wrapped in blan- kets and landed at Swanage at 4.5. One of the girls made a donation to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the craw, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 18s..