She was carrying 50 RAF personnel, 20 rescued British seamen, and 8 DEMS gunners, with a cargo of 1,200 tons of copper and 3,000 tons of oranges.

On April 4, 1879, he lead multiple and eventually successful efforts to rescue seamen stranded in an offshore wreck at the height of a violent storm.

The purpose of Dumbo missions was to rescue downed American aviators as well as seamen in distress.

During October 1912 the ship was in Cebu where a Pathfinder boat crew rescued other seamen during a typhoon.

He then followed them to safety on board the cruiser which provided hospitality for the shipwrecked mariners who were glad to be on board an American cruiser as rescued seamen and not in a British warship as prisoners-of-war.

When the storms had passed, she would wade in the water as far as she could to rescue trapped seamen from their doomed ships.

Both awards were for peace-time actions rescuing fellow seamen.

Fury helped to rescue British seamen who had been captured by commerce raiders.

Jack Dixon was a young seaman on board HMS Brilliant, the first destroyer to rescue American seamen abandoning ship on that Christmas Eve 1944.

A storm followed the battle and Ajax rescued seamen from ships in danger of sinking.