Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 3.55 p.m. on 23rd August, 1968, it was reported that a girl had been washed off the rocks at Land's End and a man had jumped into the sea to help her.

The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 4.7 in a moderate northeasterly wind with a moderate sea.

The tide was flooding. On reaching the scene the life-boat found three people clinging to a life-buoy. To have hauled them ashore might have proved fatal, so the life-boat was brought to within 10 feet of them and they were thrown the breeches buoy.

They managed to reach it at the first attempt and were quickly hauled aboard the life-boat and wrapped in blankets. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.30 p.m. and two of the survivors were then taken to hospital by ambulance..