Swanage, Dorset - At 2.30 p.m. on 16th October, 1966, a party of 10 skin divers were being swept over Peveril ledge and were in need of assistance. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.40 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough sea.

It was three hours before low water. She proceeded to Dunstan Head and rescued eight of the skin divers who were clinging to a rubber dinghy. There were 10 skin divers in the party, seven of whom were in a clinker dinghy and three in the rubber dinghy. A speedboat had managed to take off two from the rubber dinghy before they were swept into the rough water in Dunstan bay. Once in the rough water the clinker dinghy had been swamped and sunk but the eight remaining divers hung on to the rubber dinghy which was swept to Dunstan Head. The rubber dinghy was recovered and the R.L.P. returned to Swanage where the survivors were landed. The life-boat was back on station at 3.37..