GALLANT RESCUE OFF THE LIZARD

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1508, 24 January 1901, Page 47

GALLANT RESCUE OFF THE LIZARD

A “FAMILY"'’ LIFEBOAT CREW. The story of tire rescue of File captain of the barque Glint, which was wrecked« of the barque Glint, which was wrecked 30th is of peculiar interest. The coxswain of the Cadgwith a weather-beaten, sturdy old Cornish fisherman, and a life-long teetotaller, has given further details. For thirty-four years has lie been coxswain, and the crew consists almost wholly of his sons and nephews. About a quarter to four on Sunday morning,” says the old lifeboatman, “we hoard the warning rockets from the Lizard. I believe it was quarter to four, but, lor! we don’t take no notice o’ time when there’s a, wreck on; we go. We got to sea ; the night was dark and cloudy, THE SEA TREMENDOUS, for the gale had just passed off. “We rowed about tlnxe miles, then fell in with the Lizard: lifeboat. We found tin-' wreck by the shouts of the crew. The ship was broken to pieces,

and wreckage floating all over the place. The Lizard lifeboat took off four men, and we found the- captain floating among a mass of wreckage. We forced our way through it, and once our boat was thrown up high and dry'. We threw him a line, and after four attempts hauled him into cur boat. Then we took him ashore, and went back to the wreck to find five men who had taken to a boat. But the wreck had disappeared by that time, and we afterwards heard that the boat with the six men' had been taken into Goverack by some fishermen. AMONG OUR CREW WAS THE RECTOR, the -Rev H. Vyvyan, who put on sea boots, lifebelt, and sou’-wester like the rest- of us.” The reverend gentleman has .made himself extremely popular among the hardy fisherfolk by his interest in them and his readiness always- to lend a helping hand. . The captain of the ship still lies in bed at- the hotel, bruised and sore after his two hours’ of battling with the waves and wreckage. There is no light in the coastguard station; it might lure a ship to:jdestruction; so the look-out man sits- in the dark and looks cut across the dark and stormy Channel. Hearing of -the wreck he got out the life-saving apparatus, and from the- cliff above threw a line across the wrecked barque. But the crew did not* know of the use. of the life-line'. They had never heard or seen of it before, these Norwegian sailors, and so all the ivork was in vain; and the rescue was left- to the lifeboats. :