Appledore, Devon. On the 13th of April, 1960, the motor vessel Lundy Gannet was returning from Lundy Island to Bideford on the evening tide with six people on board, including four passengers, when the keel band came adrift and threatened to foul the propellers. The second coxswain of the Clovelly life-boat was the skipper of the Lundy Gannet, and he asked for the Appledore life-boat to escort her over the bar. At 6.25 the life-boat Violet Armstrong put out two hours before high water in a south-westerly wind of near gale force and a rough sea.

After oil had been spread on the water the life-boat escorted the Lundy Gannet safely into harbour, returning to her station at eight o'clock. The owner of the Lundy Gannet and one passenger made gifts to the life-boat crew. Re- wards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..