TRAPPED ON SHOAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 5, 7 January 1931, Page 10

TRAPPED ON SHOAL.

YACHT'S DESPERATE PLIGHT.

SIX HOURS AT THE PUMPS

REDUCED TO THE LAST FLAKE

Seven men and two women were rescued from the motor yacht Auriga after a eix hours' light with raging seas which drove tho yacht faet into the treacherous Ship Wash ehoal, seven miles off the coast from Walton-on-the-Nazc. / l? The yacht was rapidly sinking while its occupant** strove desperately at the pumps, and the last sheet was being burned as a" flare when the Walton-on-thc-Naz'e lifeboat arrived just in. time to gave the. shipwrecked party. .Tho rescued people, were: —Mr. Guy T. Lee, tho skipper, of Edith-grove,; Cheleea, and Mrs. Lee, his wife; Mr. P. i I. E. Pellew'and hie mother, Mrs. Pellew, who lives in the south of France; Mr. D. Scott-Moncrieff, the racing motorist, of Englefield Green, Surrey; Mr. L. Johns, the steward, of London*; | Mr. Peter Hales, engineer, of llegent's | Park; Mr. G. -Shepherd, engineer, of Lowestoftv and Mr. J. C. Pigou, the] mate, of Burnham-on-Crouch. . .] At the Pumps. ■■..,■ j> Tho Auriga,* a 100-ton vessel, ,'glcft;, Burnhani-on-CJroucii ', ,f6r HeybK||e/' where it was to be refitted preparatory to a world cruise, including visits "to tho South Sea'lslands and Hollywood, Mrs. Tellew had come specially /".from Franco make a trial trip on the -yacht before purchasing it for her son. "Wo worked frantically to draw attention to our plight,", she (=aid to an interviewer. "Rome of the party were; seasick below, but the rest of us worked on the pilrape oiv lit flares, which we made by eoa.king sheets, and when they were ail destroyed, our personal clothing, in paraffin and lighting them. | "These signals, I learn, were noticed I by tho Sunk Lightship, which sent up a rocket and wirelessed to the shore. On Their "Last Legs." "At length we* saw the lifeboat fight-1 ing its way toward us. We were then on our 'last leg's.' My son had been injured when the boom crashed, and our little dog mascot Bingo had been washed overboard and last. | ' "A ten-gallon drum of petrol had caught fire while we were lighting flares, arid for a time the' yacht wae in peril of being burned, but the skipper, disre-1 garding his personal safety, seized the can and flung it into the sea. He was badly burned." I Mr. Lee, the skipper, was the last to leave the yacht. He was anxious to remain on board in tho hope, that he; could steer the ship to port wjien the' storm abated. He paid tribute to the fortitude of- his companions during the ordeal when he came ashore from the lifeboat.

Edward I. was the English (sovereign who had most children. By hie first wife, Eleanor, he had four sons and eleven daughters; and by Margaret, his s'econd wife, he had three sons, making a total of IS. Queen Anne had a family, of 17 children, all of whom died in ' infancy, except William, who lived to be 11 years old: arid' George 111. had a I family of 15 children. ■ .