Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 2.16 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that six people were cut off by the tide on a ledge at Thornwick'bay, one mile north west of the life-boat station. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 2.30 in a west by northerly gale and a choppy sea.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat proceeded to the position given and found a woman and three children stranded. Two members of the lifeboat crew jumped on to the ledge after the life-boat had dropped her anchor. They passed the three children into the life-boat, having to wait their opportunity owing to the swell.

When they were taken on board the woman said her husband and another child had gone to find a way up the cliff. A member of the crew was sent to search for them. When they were found they were taken on board the life-boat, which returned to her station at 3 o'clock..