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BODY FOUND AFTER SEARCH WITH HELICOPTER Weymouth, Dorset. At 12.55 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and a girl were stranded on some rocks below the cliffs at Lulworth Cove. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke put out at 1.5 in a strong west-south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. A helicopter also took off. The police reported later that the two people were in the water and a search was carried out, in the course of which the helicopter sighted a body floating in the sea. This was recovered by the life-boat, which was in radio contact with the helicopter.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 4.55..