Appledore, Devon. On the 7th of January, 1959, the Post Office tele- phone engineer in charge asked the honorary secretary for help in bringing three engineers to Lundy Island, as the only telephone line to the island had been out of action since Christmas and the weather had been too bad for local craft to make the crossing. The life-boat Violet Armstrong put out at seven o'clock the next day with the three engineers on board. There was a choppy sea and a fresh northerly wind. The engineers were landed, and the life-boat reached her station at three o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £18 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s.

Refunded to the Institution by the General Post Office..