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BODY OF SWIMMER LANDED Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th August, 1962, the coastguard [informed the honorary secretary that a young woman had been swept from the rocks under Lands End by a large wave. At 1.27 the life-boat Susan Ashley was launched in a moderate westerly wind and a choppy sea with a heavy ground swell. It was one hour before high water. People on the cliff top directed the life-boat to where the woman was floating face downwards about two hundred yards out and close to a big island rock known as Enys Dodman. The life-boat picked her up and landed her, but a doctor who then examined her found that she was dead. The life-boat reached her station at 2.30..