Sunset watch for the Margate lifeboatman, a memorial to nine men who lost their lives in the early morning of December 2, 1897, when Margate town surf boat Friend of All Nations capsized on her way to help the ship Persian Empire of West Hartlepool. A strong gale was blowing from the north north east and there were very heavy seas accompanied by rain and snow. The nine men were: Coxswain William Philpott Cook, Snr, Crew Members Henry Richard Brockman, Robert Ernest Cook, William Philpott Cook, Jnr, Edward Robert Crunden, John Benjamin Dike, William Richard Gill and George Robert William Ladd, and Charles E. Troughton, superintendent of Margate Ambulance Corps. The photograph was taken by Frank Mathews..