Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast.

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most generous friends. Sir Frederick Moneypenny, in spite of his many official duties, was not only a member of the Committee of the Belfast Branch, but was always ready to give his personal help, and for over thirty years he took an active and valuable part in its work.

Mr. Henry Watson, J J ., of Anstruther.

MB. HENRY WATSON, J.P., of Anstru- ther, Fifeshire, died on 12th August, less than a month after he had resigned, on account of ill-health, his position of Joint Honorary Secretary of the Station which he had held with his partner of the firm of solicitors Messrs. Mackintosh and Watson. He was appointed Honorary Treasurer in 1891, and six years later joined Mr. A. C. Mackintosh as Joint Honorary Secretary. His interest in the sea and in the fishermen of the East Coast was shown also by the work which he did as a member of the Fishery Board from 1903 to 1911 and as Joint Honorary Agent of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. He took the closest personal interest in the Branch, both in the work of the Station and in organizing appeals, and in 1913 he and his partner were presented with a Life- boat Picture in recognition of their services to the Institution.

Alderman J. G. Oldfield, JJ ., of Whitehaven.

ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of many other public duties, as a member of the Town Council, the Harbour Board and the Board of Guardians, and as a Justice of the Peace. Appointed in 1890, he remained Honorary Secretary until the station was closed in 1925. In 1900 he was presented with inscribed Binoculars, and on his retirement he received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for his many services to it.

Captain Owen Jones, of Moelfre, Anglesey.

IN the early morning of 27th July a number of fishing boats went out from Moelfre, Anglesey. A gale sprang up and all the boats returned but one.

It was a sailing boat with only one man on board, Captain Owen Jones. The Life-boat went out to search for him, but no trace of him or his boat could be found. It was supposed that the boat had capsized, that he was pinned beneath it, and that with the ballast on board it had sunk and carried his body down. On the day of his death Captain Jones would have celebrated his golden wedding.

Captain Owen Jones was a Gold Medallist of the Institution. He won the Medal for one of the outstanding NOVEMBER, 1932.] THE LIFEBOAT.

605 Life-boat services of the present century, the rescue by the Moelfre Pulling and Sailing Life-boat of three men from the ketch Excel on 28th October, 1927.

Captain Jones was not a regular member of the Life-boat Crew, but went out when he could and was always ready to place his local knowledge and experience at the service of the Station.

On this occasion the Coxswain was away and the Life-boat was in charge of the Second Coxswain with Captain Jones to help him. The two shared the responsibility for the heroic measure which enabled the Life-boat to rescue the Excel's crew. They found the ketch waterlogged and on the point of sinking, and without hesitation they sailed the Life-boat right over her. The three men of her crew were seized and dragged on board and the Life-boat was washed back, stove in in three places. Full of water, and with her jib blown to ribbons, the Life-boat beat back against the gale, and during that night of suffering two men died on board. The rest arrived completely exhausted. They had been out for seventeen hours.

Both the Second Coxswain and Captain Owen Jones were awarded the Institu- tion's Gold Medal and each member of the Crew the Bronze Medal..