November, 1838.
On the 27th November, 1838, the brig 'Bellissima,' from Odessa to
Amsterdam, was driven, during a heavy gale of wind, on the rocks, a
mile and a half to the westward of Looe. She was breaking up fast,
and her crew were evidently getting disheartened, when William
Jennings, commissioned boatman of the coast-guard, at the risk of his
life, nobly swam off to the rock with a rope, and by throwing it to
the vessel, the crew, thirteen in number, were enabled to get to the
rock, from which they were taken by a boat, carried overland from
Looe by the indefatigable exertions of several inhabitants of that
town.