For Those in Peril is a 1944 British war film produced by Ealing Studios that marked the directorial debut of Charles Crichton. The film was developed from a short story by Richard Hillary, an RAF pilot killed in action in January 1943. The basic and relatively slight storyline of For Those in Peril was an end to produce a film with a documentary feel and an element of wartime propaganda. The film stars Ralph Michael and David Farrar. The title is taken from the maritime hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save: Oh hear us when we pray to thee, for those in peril on the sea. The film is cut with many sections of true life footage of the motor launches in action. Plot During the Second World War a fighter pilot bails-out over the English Channel. Lost in the vast sea he floats but is unaided. Observers on the coast at the White Cliffs of Dover assess that it is too late. He is dead. We are then introduced to various characters on a coastal air sea rescue base on the Sussex coast. Aspiring RAF pilot Pilot Officer Rawlings (Ralph Michael) has failed to make the grade in training as a mainstream pilot and grudgingly accepts the alternative of joining the crew of Launch 183 (which the crew call Sally), an air-sea rescue craft skippered by Flight Lieutenant Murray (David Farrar). Rawlings is initially resentful and bored by the apparent mundane and un-exciting life, until the vessel is called on to rescue the three man crew of an RAF bomber shot down in mid-Channel, in a small rubber dinghy in the fog. The three survivors encounter a German trawler, Konigin, in the fog and are keen not to be seen. The fog clears and the three men send up a kite. They are spotted by a Supermarine Walrus seaplane. They try to warn it not to land as here are mines in the water, but they are too late. The men paddle themselves out of the minefield. At the point where the two launches (134 and 183) spot the men the German trawler reappears. It has a mounted gun on the front and a battle commences. HSL 134 is hit. The larger naval vessel RML 529 arrives and provides enough fire power to scare the Germans off. 183 rescues the men and takes 134 on tow. Having accomplished the