Shipwreck accounts (and a random train travel detail)

[burntcopper]

Setting : mid 1920s, Cornwall (specifically the south coast around Falmouth, but only because I know the geography of the coast and the rocks and where the lifeboat station is), ship going down in a storm and the lifeboat coming out to rescue the crew

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[reapermum]

I don't know where the valet will travel (Bunter?) but they will be on the Riviera Express

[jayb111]

More thoughts - try the RNLI website. And the Lynmouth lifeboat carried out a famous rescue once, there should be some info online.

[syntinen_laulu]

The valet would travel separately, and would bustle along to their carriage at any reasonably long halt to see if his employer wanted anything. Cf. Anthony Hope's Rupert of Hentzau, in which Fritz von Tarlenheim's manservant is actually being paid by his enemy and makes use of their separate travelling arrangements to co-ordinate an attack on him when he gets off the train. That's 1890s, I know, but the practice didn't change in the next half-century. Exceptions would only be made in cases of absolute necessity - e.g. if the employer were crippled or very ill and needed help all the time