In 1947, a lifeboat named after Edward, Prince of Wales, put out from the village of Mumbles, in Wales, in a terrific storm, to aid the stricken ship Santampa.
Mumbles sounds like the name of a British village in a Stella Gibbons satire, but the business afoot that night was in earnest.
The Edward’s coxswain, William Gannon, had previously received gold and silver medals for life-saving in storms.
Among the unpaid volunteer crew was William Howell, a survivor of a wartime to…
