April 19, 1928: A Widely Acclaimed Lifeboat Captain Crosses the Bar

Theodorus “Dorus” Rijkers, who was credited with saving hundreds of lives from shipwrecks along the coast of the Netherlands, died at the age of 81 in Den Helder. Rijkers had been born in that Dutch city in 1847.

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