Martin Woodward on Saving Lives at Sea

One of the most significant ones for the new ‘Jack Shayler and the Lees’ Lifeboat that arrived in 1970, virtually just after she’d arrived was a big tanker collision between the ‘Pacific Glory’ and a ship called the ‘Allegro’ off St Catherine’s Point, and the ‘Pacific Glory’ burst in to flames, had explosions and there was quite a large loss of life so that was a significant one for the ‘Jack Shayler’.