October, 1839.
On the 4th October, 1839, John Burke, a seaman belonging to H.M.S.
'Pembroke,' commanded by Captain Moresby, then lying in Vasika Bay,
fell overboard, and, the man being unable to swim, was in the act of
being carried away by the current. Commander Aldridge, of the
'Pembroke,' observing from the poop the inevitable fate of the
seaman, leaped from thence a height of 30 feet into the sea, and
succeeded in saving him.