Swanage, Dorset - At 10.20 p.m.

on 10th March, 1968, the coxswain learnt that two people were missing in the Studland to Swanage area. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.30 in a gentle west by north breeze with a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. Using her searchlight the life-boat searched for nearly an hour from Ballard head to Old Harry rocks. Three policeman at the top of the cliffs at Old Harry shouted to the life-boat crew that the missing pair had last been seen scrambling up the cliffs 400 yards on the Swanage side of Ballard head. The life-boat immediately proceeded to the scene and after a careful search something was seen to move at the base of the cliff. Three members of the life-boat crew qualified in first aid launched the inflatable dinghy carried on board the life-boat and went ashore to investigate. They found a man and a woman very badly injured. With the aid of a policeman who had climbed down the cliff face the injured people were transferred to the life-boat by means of the dinghy. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 2.40 a.m. on llth March. A doctor and ambulance were waLiiT1 to meet her..