Cromer, Norfolk.—Oil the 30th of May, 1953,H.M.S. Cheerful, which was paying an official visit to Cromer, had several guests on board, including the Chairman of the Cromer Urban Dis- trict Council and the life-boat honorary secretary. The weather deteriorated during the evening, and the Cheerful \sas unable to land the guests. The weather was still bad the next day.

The guests still could not go ashore, and two ladies were feeling seasick.

The honorary secretary therefore asked for the Xo/2 life-boat. At 11.30 on the 31st the life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched in a rough sea with a strong northerly wind blowing, and went alongside the Cheerful. The coxswain gave each of the guests a life-belt, and the life-boatmen helpedI them all into the life-boat, which then took them ashore. The life-boat reached her station again at 12.10.— Rewards, £11 9*..