Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough, who died on 28th Febru- ary, just before his seventieth birthday, served as an officer of the Flamborough life-boats for thirty-one years. From 1900 to 1911 he was second coxswain of the No. 2 life-boat, and from 1911 to 1931 he was coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat. During his thirty-one years of service the station rescued 167 lives. In 1930 he received the lhanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of the crew of sixteen men of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa which had gone ashore at night in a fog right under the cliffs.

In the darkness, with heavy seas continually sweeping over the wreck and the life-boat, the work of rescue was very difficult and dangerous.

When he retired in 1931, Coxswain Chadwick was awarded a pension and a certificate of service..