Swanage, Dorset. At 8.55 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of boys were stranded on the cliff face at Ballard Head. A shore rescue party was trying to reach them, and the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could try to locate the boys and help direct the rescue with the aid of her searchlight and loud-hailer. At 9.3 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched one hour before high water. The weather was fine with light westerly airs and a calm sea. A coastguardsman assisted by the police was lowered two hundred feet over the cliff, and the coxswain, using the loud-hailer, directed him to a position where two boys had been sighted. The life-boat's searchlight illuminated the cliff face, and the boys were helped to the beach a hundred and fifty feet below them and led by the coastguardsman a mile and a quarter along the beach to a police car. The life-boat reached her station at 11.15.

Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16s..