CLIFF CLIMBER FELL Swanage, Dorset. At i.i p.m. on 26th October, 1965, the life-boat's assistance was requested as a youth had fallen down the cliff two hundred yards west of Anvil Point. The life-boat R.L.P.

was launched at 1.9, with the second coxswain in command, in a light southeasterly breeze and a moderate sea. It was three hours after high water.

The life-boat went to the cliff where it was found that the youth, who was a member of a school cliff climbing party, had fallen forty feet on to a ledge fifteen to twenty feet above sea level. A coastguard, a policeman and two schoolmasters had been lowered by rope on to the ledge, and after giving first aid had strapped the youth into a Neil-Robertson stretcher.

The life-boat anchored at the foot of the cliff and the injured youth was lowered to her. She then returned to her station at 2.io p.m., where a doctor examined the boy before he was conveyed to hospital.

He had a broken ankle and wrist and various lacerations..