Captain of the Mast Ingouville, although wounded, jumped overboard, swam round to the boat's bows, took hold of the painter and tried to turn the cutter out to sea.

A lieutenant of the Royal Marine Artillery (George Dare Dowell) came to his assistance, when with three volunteers, he took off the crew from the cutter, rescued Ingouville from the water and then towed the stricken boat out of gun range.

Notwithstanding that he was wounded in the arm, and that the boat was under a very heavy fire, Ingouville, without any order to do so, jumped overboard, caught hold of her painter, and saved her.

(Despatch from Captain Yelverton, 18th November, 1855, and Rear-Admiral Honourable Sir B. T. Dundas, 12th December, 1855, No.

Ingouville's VC can be seen in the Maritime Museum on the New North Quay in St Helier, Jersey.