Dennis Vibert recalls escaping to England during the German occupation. Recording originally produced by the Channel Islands Educational Broadcasting Service. Original reference: Res 19. Includes: difficulties of obtaining and hiding a boat; kept an 8ft boat with two motors and supplies at a house in St Lawrence; decided to go on Tuesday 21/09/1941; Mr [John] Moignard and Mr [Cyril] Quérée helped him lauch the boat; rowed out about five miles from Bel Royal then started the motor; sea became choppy and sea water got into petrol tank of first motor; lost balance and second motor went overboard; rowed all night; everything got wet; rowed all day Wednesday, slept that night; hadn't brought enough water; worried that he would miss England and go up into the Irish Sea; sighted Portland Bill on Friday afternoon; picked up by a British destroyer, HMS Brocklesby; arrested by army police; identified by Advocate Denys Richardson, a Jerseyman who was the skipper of a minesweeper; questioned by naval intelligence on German fortifications and conditions in Jersey; charged 10 shillings customs duty for importing the boat.