Cromer, Norfolk.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat was returning to Cromer in his fishing boat, when another fishing boat, the White Rose, which had just put to sea, hailed him with the news that the fishing boatBoy Jimmy had foundered in a swell a hundred yards from the shore. The coxswain, assis- tant motor mechanic and a life-boat- man of the No. 2 life-boat had all been aboard the Boy Jimmy. Both boats at once searched for the men, but found nothing1 and went ashore at 9.45. At 9.55 the coastguard rang up the life-boat station, and as two other fishing boats, The Miss Cromer and Why Worry, were still at sea, the No. 1 coxswain decided to call out the No. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon. He took charge of her, and she was launched at 11.15 with a light north- north-west breeze blowing. She escorted the two fishing boats to the shore and arrived back at her station at noon. The three men in the Boy Jimmy lost their lives. The Institu- tion made a contribution to a local fund raised for the dependants. An account of the careers of the three life-boatmen who lost their lives is given on page 545.—Rewards, £10 15s.

were paid, but the crew and helpers gave this sum and the rewards paid for the service on the 80th of May (see page 565) to the fund raised for the dependants of those who lost their lives..