On the 18th of February 1976 Eamonn Andrews surprised Shrimp Davies with his “Big Red Book”. Henry Thomas Davies was made the subject of the ITV programme This is Your Life on the night before Shrimp retired as coxswain. After retiring from the lifeboat in 1976, Shrimp continued to run the family deckchair business on Cromer's east beach where he was a familiar and talkative figure. Henry Davies died in the summer of 2002 at the age of 88. Lifeboatmen from across the country attended his funeral to commemorate a man whose career saw some of the most daring and dramatic rescues in lifeboat history. In his 45 years of service he took part in more than 500 rescues.
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