Swanage, Dorset. At 12.54 early on the morning of the 17th of January, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that three young men who had been climbing cliffs to the west of Durlston Head were missing. The police had organised a search and the help of the life-boat was requested. At 1.20 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a gentle northerly breeze. The sea was slight and the tide was half ebb.

When the life-boat was four hundred yards west of Anvil Point shouts were heard from the base of the cliffs, and on turning the searchlight in the direction of the shouting the coxswain spotted the three young men. A parachute flare was fired to light up the area and indicate to the police that the men had been found. The coxswain then an- chored the life-boat as close to the rocks as possible, and a line was thrown ashore with a life-buoy attached. The three men were hauled aboard, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.35. The mothers of two of the rescued men made donations to the Institution's funds. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 12s..