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RAF Pilot Officer Richard Hillary (who later went on to write The Last Enemy and the subject of a rumour that he was a descendant of RNLI founder, Sir William Hillary) parachuted into the sea near Margate after his Spitfire was shot down. As such, another common call-out for lifeboat crews was to rescue both Allied and Axis aircrew that had been shot down into the sea. Battle of BritainĪs the war continued, RAF and the Luftwaffe aircraft repeatedly entered into dogfights over the Channel. In the report of this rescue, the Naval Commander at Swansea wrote: ‘The commanding officer and all his men were unanimous in their admiration of the splendid way in which the lifeboat was handled by Coxswain Gammon and say that the whole crew were magnificent.’įor this rescue, Coxswain William Gammon was awarded the Gold Medal for Gallantry, with Second Coxswain Tom Ace and Mechanic Gilbert Davies receiving the Bronze Medal. The fact that crew of The Mumbles had an average age of 55 - with two crew members over 60 and two more over 70 - makes this rescue all the more remarkable. With the Chebogue crew keeping their heads, Coxswain Gammon repeated this remarkable manoeuvre 12 times, rescuing all 42 of the frigate’s crew, with only a few suffering minor injuries from the life-or-death leap onto the lifeboat.įor a crew made up of young volunteers, this rescue would be extremely impressive. ‘Yes,’ he shouted back, ‘if they keep their heads.’ Oliver RCNR, hailed Coxswain Gammon and asked if all his crew could be rescued. The commander of Chebogue, Lieutenant Commander M.
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In an extraordinary feat of seamanship and bravery, Coxswain Gammon drove full speed over the bar to reach the seaward side of the wreckage and then held the boat still just long enough for some crew to make the dangerous leap aboard. The plunging bow and swinging anchor chains made it extremely difficult to come alongside the boat to rescue the crew. Giving no thought to past tragedies or immediate danger, the crew launched into darkness, sleet, and enormous waves towards the damaged frigate.Ĭoxswain William Gammon immediately recognised the perilous nature of the situation. One crew member from 1903 was aboard the Edward, Prince of Wales that went out to aid of the Chebogue. In 18, Mumbles lifeboats had capsized and lost crew during two particularly violent storms. When the crew of Edward, Prince of Wales at Mumbles got the call, they all knew that the bar in a storm of this magnitude was a place of extreme danger. She was towed to the apparent safety of Swansea Bay, but unfortunately, the weather took a dramatic turn for the worse.Ĭhanging from a 40-knot gale to a 70-knot hurricane, the Chebogue was dragged stern-first on to Port Talbot Bar. In 1944, the Canadian frigate Chebogue suffered heavy casualties when her stern was blown away by an enemy torpedo, leaving her stranded in dangerous waters.
says for new players that want to start playing this type of genre LoL is the way to go but if you want to go in for a deeper, harder experience go for Dota 2. I stopped for a year, but got back just a week ago, and Dota can sure be pretty hard yet through practice, it becomes so fun to the point you get addicted to it.
one thing I really love about Dota 2 is no matter how much time you put into the game, you still won't master everything Dota has because it's so complex. I look forward to what the years will bring in this game. I had been given a new challenge and changed my gaming style to a laning harasser character and changed to support. In some games, I would have put it down for a while, discouraged in the failure. And just when I thought I had found my hero in Broodmother, I found that as I moved up to more talented players an less first week players, I found that she was to easily countered. Finding out abbodon was my go to character took around 6-7 weeks of testing out different heroes. I enjoy the satisfaction of feeling like even without big time stats, I greatly influenced my team to victory.