Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 4.40 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard asked the coxswain for a boat to help with the rescue of a man who had fallen over a cliff at Flamborough Head.

There was a fresh north-westerly wind and a moderate sea. The tide was flooding.

The coxswain put out in the fishing coble Imperialist after telling the second coxswain and asking him to follow with the life-boat as her equipment would no doubt be required. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 4.50 and on reaching the Head a police constable who was on board swam to the shore to give first aid to the injured man. Shortly afterwards a helicopter arrived and the man was winched up to the cliff top. These operations were directed from the lifeboat.

When the injured man was safely at the top of the cliff the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 7 p.m..