FLARES LIT FOR CLIFF SEARCH PARTY Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.36 on the night of the 15th August, 1962, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was missing on the cliffs at Durdle Door and said that the police had asked if the life-boat would illuminate the area one hundred yards east of Cliff Arch. At 10.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put to sea in a moderate westerly breeze, a choppy sea and an ebbing tide. She fired parachute flares and used her searchlight to help the shore rescue party, but the boy was not found and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.25 in the morning.

The boy lost his life..