Swanage, Dorset. At 6.20 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the assistant secretary, who was at the boathouse with the coxswain and the motor mechanic, that a yacht was burning red flares three to four miles north-north-east of Peveril Point. The life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6.31 in a moderate east-north-easterly wind. The sea was rough and the tide flooding.

The life-boat found the yacht Frolic of Falmouth, with a crew of four, one mile north-by-east of Peveril Point. She had dragged her anchor, which had eventu- ally fouled the rocks of the north ledge, and the cable had fouled her propeller.

The Frolic was taken in tow to Poole quay and secured, and the life-boat reached her station at 10.32. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 10s. 6d..