Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When serving as second coxswain he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for his share in the daring service to the crew of the schooner Pet, of Chester, who were rescued on a foggy night, with a heavy ground swell running, when their vessel was lying among submerged rocks and the remains of an old wreck..