Appledore, Devon - At 5.30 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, a visitor informed the mechanic that a person had disappeared while swimming across the river Torridge.

At 5.40 the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker set out. It was thirty minutes before low water and the sea was calm.

The life-boat rescued the swimmer who was exhausted. She returned to her moorings at 6 o'clock..