By Isle of Wight Observer
This piece, from the Isle of Wight Observer published on 14th June, 1919, showed that, while a Solent squall may overturn a boat, it could not quash youthful Freshwater bravery. We do hope they did not have to learn future lessons in seamanship in such a hard way.
RESCUE IN THE SOLENT
A sailing boat containing three young men of Freshwater, named Brudge, Robinson, and Wadham, capsized in the Solent near Lymington on Monday evening. The occupants had hired a boat at Colwell Bay to take them for a sail to Keyhaven, on the mainland coast. On the return journey, when about a mile from the mainland, a squall struck the boat, which turned over.
Brudge, who is a splendid swimmer, and only 19 years of age, pluckily swam for over half a mile holding up Wadham, who could not swim, and thus saved his life. Robinson, also a swimmer, succeeded in getting on a mudbank near the entrance to Lymington River.
All three were seen by a military officer who was out for a sail, and he conveyed them in his boat to Yarmouth.