PERILOUS CLIMB.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 12

PERILOUS CLIMB.

After a Brixham crew had run their blazing trawler a&hor© in the dark hours of the morning of Ist May, their only means of escape from tho rocks and the sea was tho norve-strainiiig ascent of a cliff ladder slung over the perpendicular faco of tho great headland known .as Pendower, near Land's End. Tho cliff is fully 220 it from top to bottom, but the life-saving brigade weTo able to keep a foothold 90ft down. Then came a sheer drop of 130 ft, which was covered by tho cliff ladder. While the smack Concord lay oil' the Wolf Lighthouse on Thursday night, tho mate, H. Bickford, discovered lire in the engine oil locker. The captain, Small, and the two apprentices were aroused, and the four hands tried to extinguish the flames with buckets of water, but were unable to do so, and they put off from the Concord in their boat. As, however, there was a oaro chance of running the trawler ashore, her canvas being still intact, tho crew, scrambled aboard again. In the meantime tho coastguard lookout at Tolpedn had seen the glare of the flanles and fired a rocket summoning assistance. Between 2 a.nd 2.30 in the morning the Concord sailed aehore. where her crew left their boat and sought refuge among tho rocks. As soon as the iife-Bavers located the wreck a cliff lndder had been secured and one of the brigade went down it and fastened a lifeline around each of tho Brixham men, who one by olio ascended to safety. The trawler was soon burnt out.