Cromer, Norfolk. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, on the advice of the coxswain of the no. 1 life-boat, the no. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched on an ebbing tide to go to the help of the crab boats which were hauling in their pots in weather which was becoming worse.

There was a fresh north-westerly gale blowing, and the sea was rough. The life-boat set a course to the south- east for half a mile and then escorted the crab boats Friendship and Black Beauty to the beach. She stood by while another boat, the William Robert, was safely beached and then proceeded one mile north-west to escort the Eng- lish Rose back to the beach. The life-boat finally reached her station at 3.40..