LEAP FOR LIFE
THIRTY MEN IN PERIL. RESCUE BY LIFEBOAT. Thirty men leaped for their lives into the Filey lifeboat from the trawler Johannesburg, wrecked on Filey Brigg, Yorkshire, in 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 he able to refloat the vessel on tho night tide. Twenty-one local fishermen joined the crew on the trawler to give assistance when refloating the boat, but the wind freshened and went round to the north. ‘With a roughening sea and coming storm the Filey lifeboat again went out to the Johannesburg. calling for the assistance of the 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 the trawler and heeled her right over, while the 30 men lined her rails and jumped together into the lifeboat, falling on top of each other and across the oarsmen while they pulled l ; ;v‘4 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 .the Brigg where some if the men were transferred to the Scarborough liifbpat. The trawler was now wallowing in deep water on tlie 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 in this manoeuvre they were successful. Five more men were then trail! 3 ferred from the Scarborough motor lifeboat to the trawler, and the augmented crew were successful in reselling calm water, where with both lifeboats in attendance the trawler was successfully beached on the sandy bottom . 1
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 8
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347LEAP FOR LIFE Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 8
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