Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: ILB Crew Member H. E. "Dilly" Appleton with the youngest of 121 people taken off the pleasure cruiser Queen of the Broads which ran aground on Breydon Water in thick fog on Tuesday June 19. After being stranded for about ten hours she was located by the inshore lifeboat and Crew Members Dilly Appleton and Stanley Woods waded through mud with a portable radio to establish a communication link. As no other means of rescue was available, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat Edian Courtnauld, on temporary duty at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, launched at 2245. Helped across a plank bridge to the ILB, then ferried to Edian Courtauld, all 121 people, and one dog, were eventually landed at Yarmouth at 0530.

photograph by courtesy of Great Yarmouth Press Agency.