LEAP FOR LIFE
THIRTY MEN IN PERIL RESCUE BY A LIFEBOAT Thirty men leaped for their lives into the Filey lifeboat from the trawler Johannesburg, wrecked on Filey Brigg, Yorkshire, ju a strong north-westerly gale on February 8. The Scarborough lifeboat was also in attendance. The trawler went aground early in the morning, and the crew refused to leave when the Filey lifeboat went to their rescue, hoping that they would be able to refloat the vessel on the night tide. Twenty-one local fishermen joined the crew on the trawler to give assistance when refloating the boat, but the wind freshened and wont round to the north. With a roughening sea and coming storm the Filey lifeboat again wont out to the Johannesburg, calling for tho assistance of tho new Scarborough motor lifeboat Herbert Joy 11. After considerable difficulty the Filey lifeboat, _ which is of the old rowing and sailing type, got alongside the trawler, which was bumping heavily on the Brigg and taking water. A lingo sea swept tiro trawler and heeled her right over, while thirty men lined her rails and jumped together into tho lifeboat, falling on top of each other and across the oarsmen while they pulled hard away from the Brigg. Immediately the men had jumped the trawler righted herself and slid off the Brigg into deep water, swinging round almost on to the lifeboat, which, however, drew' away in time and made for the shelter of tho Brigg, where some of the men were transferred to the Scarborough lifeboat.
Tho trawler was now wallowing in Jeep water on the stormy side of the Brigg, and three men returned to her and got her under control. The rising tide gave the men on board an opportunity of clearing the end of the Brigg, and m this manoeuvre they were successful. Five more men were then transferred from the Scarborough motor lifeboat to the trawler, and the augmented crew were successful in reaching calm water, where, with lifeboats in attendance, tho trawler was .successfully beached on tho sandy bottom ,
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Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 16
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343LEAP FOR LIFE Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 16
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