MAN’S BRAVE SWIM
IN STORMY SEA TO SAVE LIVES.
't LONDON,, November 1
Help came to three people in a disabled motor-boat off Prawle Point, Devon, after one of the party had swum ashore through raging: seas.
• Mr alii Mrs Douglas* Keid, of Kingsbridge, Miss Margery I{eid-, and a 1 local boatman left Salcombe in the ()nat, and when the engine broke down the only chance of saving their lives' Was lor some one to' swim ashore. 'Signalling v-|»s no use, as they were hidden from the coastguard station;
Mr Held, although handicapped by an injured leg, decided to undertake the swim. A I’ltP was tied round him* and he plunged in, only to be washed- back again.
He tried repeatedly and nt. last was able 'to- land, bruised all rivet, on t'ho rocky shore.
Then lie liad to climb a steep cliff to give tile, alarm. The’Snlebmbe lifeboat put. out. and Termed the _jes£ of the party. ' •
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1932, Page 8
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158MAN’S BRAVE SWIM Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1932, Page 8
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