HEROIC LIFEBOAT CREW
RESCUE OF KETCH’S MEN.
MEDALS AWARDED.
London, Nev. IS. How a lifeboat from Moolfre. Anglesey, saved a ketch ’» crow at ’ho height of terrible gales on October 28 by descending on the ketch’s deck is revealed in coun.e.tion with the award of the Lifeboat Institution's gold medal to the coxswain, Jones, and the second coxswain, Roberts, and bronze medals to the remainder of the crew.
The lifeboat found the ketch sinking and swept by the seas in the black of the night and was unable to approach it. Jones and Roberts decided on the desperate risk of sailing over the wreck, Thev waited .for a big sea which hurled them over the deck. They bumped, dragged ip the ketch’s crew and were swept, off. Til,, next wave stove in the heat in three places. The air cases kept the boat, afloat and I be crew fought I he storm throughout the night, finally reaching shelter. Meanwhile, one. of the ketch’s crew died from injuries and one of the life boat crew 'lied from exposure. Jones held the tiller throughout the 15 hours’ buttle ami was blind fur several hours afterwards owing tn I ho strain.— (A.l’.A. and “Suu” (‘able.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 6
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202HEROIC LIFEBOAT CREW Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 6
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