In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany. In June 1940 she had escaped from France, with her coxswain, motormechanic and refugees on board, and came to England. The Ministry of Shipping handed her over to the Institution which put her in its reserve fleet. She served at eleven different stations in Devon and Cornwall, Wales and Lancashire..