The Danger area extends out to sea and mariners sailing to and from Rye Harbour must pass south of the Stephenson Shoal to avoid it.
At 6:45 am on the morning of 15 November 1928, the Mary Stanford from the Rye Harbour RNLI station responded needlessly to a Latvian steamer in distress.
Filming took place at sparsely populated areas of Kent and East Sussex, including Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Lydd, Camber Sands, Rye Harbour, Winchelsea Beach and Dymchurch.
Its tragic aftermath, when the lifeboat capsizes on a rescue mission and six of the crew are lost, is based on the Mary Stanford Lifeboat disaster of 1928 which Monica Edwards personally witnessed when she lived at Rye Harbour.
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The civil parish is large, and includes Icklesham itself, Winchelsea, Winchelsea Beach and Rye Harbour.