Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were probably stranded. At 6.37 the life-boat Violet Armstrong left her moorings towing a dinghy. There was a calm sea with a gentle easterly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. After a search lasting thirty-five minutes the missing people, who were stranded on a rock, were picked up in the beam of the life- boat's searchlight. The dinghy was sent in to bring them off, and while it was doing so calls for help were heard coming from a member of the search party, who had himself become stran- ded. He too was rescued by the dinghy, and the three people were transferred to the life-boat and landed at Woola- combe Sands. The life-boat reached her station at 9.47. Rewards to the crew, £9 16s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 3s..