Appledore, Devon. — At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1955, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that a woman visitor to Lundy Island had fallen over a cliff and broken a leg. He asked if the life-boat would take her to the mainland, and at 4.40 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. The sea was calm, there was a light west-north-west breeze, and the tide was half flood.

The life-boat reached Lundy at 7.35, embarked the woman, and took her to Appledore, arriving at 11.5. The woman was removed to hospital.— Rewards to the crew, £14 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 6*..