Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 5.50 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard reported that two youths were cut off by the tide at Selwick bay. At 6.20 the life-boat Grace Darling, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate north easterly wind with a rough sea.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat anchored and veered into a position about 50 yards from the shore. One boy was taken across the heavy swell by means of the breeches buoy to the life-boat. He was landed at Flamborough where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.

The other boy was taken to the cliff top by the coastguard. The life-boat returned to her station at 7.25. Adonation was made to the Institution's funds..