Swanage, Dorset - At 7.24 a.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties 150 yards offshore opposite the Grand Hotel. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 7.45 in a fresh south easterly breeze and a moderate sea. It was three hours before high water.

As the casualty was drifting in the offshore surf the life-boat's rubber dinghy was used to make a towline fast and she was taken in tow to a safe mooring. She carried a crew of two. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.52.

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