On the night of the 6th of May, 1955, the Eastbourne. Sussex, life-boat rescued a salvage party of sixteen men from the S.S. Gcrmania and four men from two motor boats which had been helping to unload her. For a full account of this service, for which Cox- swain Thomas Allchorn was awarded a second service clasp to the bronze medal he won in 1940, see page 106..