RESCUE AT SEA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 9

RESCUE AT SEA.

♦ LIFEBOATMEN'S BRAVERY. MEDALS AWARDED. (BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIQHT.) lAUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. AND STTN CABLE.) LONDON, November 18. How a lifeboat from Moolfre, Anglesey, saved a ketch's crew in the height of a terrible gale on October 28th by descending on the ketch's deck is revealed in connexion with the award of gold) medals by the Lifeboat Institution to Coxswain Jones and Second Coxswain Roberts, and of bronze medals to the remainder of the crew. The lifeboat found the ketch sinking and swept by seas in the black of night. It was unable to approach it. Jones and Roberts decided on the desperate risk of sailing over the wreck. They waited. for a big sea, which hurled them over the deck. They bumped, dragged in the ketch's crew, and were swept off by the next twave, stove in in three places. Air cases kept the boat afloat, and the crew fought the storm throughout the night, finally reaching shelter. Meanwhile, one of the ketch's crew had died from injuries and one of the lifeboat crew had died from exposure. Jones held the tiller throughout a fifteen hours' battle and was blind for several hours afterwards,*owing to* the strain.