The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-06
Bridgeporters Take
 Part In Rescue.
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Dr. O'Hara and Mr. Shaughnessy were guests during their stay on the island of Frank Crowell, whose son, Harold Crowell, is chief assistant to Captain Futile, the commander of the life saving crew there.
 Captain Tuttle's crew gained un- dying fame some time ago by getting the first line aboard the steamer Great Northern when it was in dan ger of sinking with several hundred returning soldiers, largely wounded, aboard.
 During intervals when the life say ing crew was at leisure Captain Tut tie took Dr. O'Hara and MT. Shaugh- messy out into the bay as his guests on a small motorboat which was his personal property. Last Sunday the party took refuge in a small inlet when Captain Futile discovered a storm approaching This storm, which wrecked such havoc all along the coast, and which resulted in the porters, mostly Singer employees, grew to such fury that the party was con templating raising the anchor and going out into the bay when Captain Futile. who has unusually keen eye sight developed by his years of sea- faring, discerned a yacht in the dis ance lurching at a dangerous angle, wind and wave that it appeared about to capsize.
 Without a moments delay the an chor was raised and the motorboat put out into the teeth of the storm into the open sea. The boat is only 30 feet long, and the enterprise was replete with danger, but no one thought of delaying the rescue by attempting to get out of the 'bnEt be- fore it set out on it's perilouS n1S- sion.
 Hardly had the little motor boat left the inlet when the yacht capslz- ed. So small was the rescuing craft that a glimpse of the doomed yacht could only be obtained when the little craft itself topped a wave. With all the speed that the battling elements would permit, the tiny craft sped to the yacht. which had already struck a sandbar when the rescuers reached it. The mast broke at the level or the deck, but the sail kept the yacht, winch was turned on one side, from completely capsiZing.
 Undaunted by the bowling wind, the blinding rain and the huge breakers, the rescuers pulled the oc- cupants of the yacht. a man of ma ture years, and his four children, ranging in age from IA to 20. two girls and two boys, aboard the motor boat.
 One of the thrilling incidents of the rescue was when Captain Futile
 jumped in and loosened the anchor of the yacht with axe, so as to save the craft from complete destruc- Gon.
 En route to shore the rescuers and rescued met the life saving crew,
 whose lookout had observed the in cident from their tower. It was an ] impreSsives ight, said Dr. OHara, when the crew of the eight-oared life | saving boat raised their oars in uni son in salute to Captain Futile. When | the life saving crew met the motor | boat, a transfer was made and the | life savers took the former occupants | of the yacht, while Harold CroweAl l went from the life saving boat to the | motor boat to assist in saving the yacht.
 l through thee ontbined efforts of | Captain Futile, MT. CroWeu, MT. | Shaughnessy and Dr. O'Hara, assisted | in the later stages by some members | of the life saving crew whom they | summoned by signal. the yacht itself was salvaged and lowed into Babylon,
 Long Island.