Swanage, Dorset - At 6.30 p.m. on 6th October, 1969, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a man was trapped on the face of the cliff at Ballard. The crew assembled in case of need. A police rescue party joined the C.R.E. Company and found the man about 100 feet down and his two other friends at the bottom of the cliff. The assistance of the life-boat was requested at 7.2 and the R.L.P.

was launched at 7.10. It was high water. She reached the foot of the cliff at 7.15 and two men went ashore in her inflatable dinghy. A policeman and a coastguard were lowered to the man and he and the policeman were then lowered to safety and taken aboard the life-boat. The coastguard was hauled back to the top of the cliff. The two men at the foot of the cliff then made their own way back.

The life-boat returned to her station at 8 o'clock..