Captain Richard James Trebilcock, of Newquay, Cornwall, Commodore of the Newquay Rowing Club, who died early in August at the age of sixty- eight, had served for seven years as an officer of the life-boat. He was appointed second coxswain in 1916, and coxswain the following year, serving as coxswain until 1923, when he retired on account of ill health. As second coxswain he won the bronze medal in December, 1917 (the cox- swain receiving the silver medal), when, in a gallant attempt to help a Danish steamer, the life-boat was overpowered by a succession of heavy seas, driven on the rocks, and broken to pieces..