Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Source

Rescue: True Life Stories of the U.S. Life-Saving Service

First Page

153

Last Page

159

Publisher

United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association

Edition

1

ISBN

9781892384591

Abstract

Ordeal on the Ice is an article concerning the February 8, 1936 rescue of Clayton Brown by United States Coastguardsman Boatswain's Mate Earl Cunningham (1895-1936) from the Coast Guard station in Charlevoix, Michigan, that resulted in his own death and that of Claude Beardsley and the awarding of the Gold Lifesaving Medal to Cunningham posthumously

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