Who takes in high dudgeon our life-saving rôle,
For every one's grousing at docking and dowsing
The marks and the lights on the 'Channel' Patrol."
. . . . . .
So swept but surviving, half drowned but still driving,
Watched her head out through the swell off the shoal,
And I heard her propellers roar: "Write to poor fellers
Who run such a hell as the 'Channel' Patrol!"
Kipling
The course in the Vernon lasted for one week, and when it was finished we were free to go on leave till we received our new appointments.