Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of January, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Don, of Goole, which was at anchor half a mile west of the Middle Light Buoy, had reported that her second officer had fallen overboard at 9.15, that she had lowered a boat with three men to search for him, and that the strong tide had swept the boat away.

At 10.5 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. She did not find the second officer, but another steamer at anchor signalled that the boat had made fast to her. The life-boat took the three men on board, towed their boat back to the Don, and returned to her station at one o'clock next morning. The master of the Don expressed his thanks.—Paid Permanent Crew.