COXSWAIN EDWARD J. SMITH, of Kes- singland, who retired in February, 1937, at the age of fifty-eight, on the closing of the station, died four months later. He had served as coxswain for seven and a half years and as an officer of the life-boat altogether for fifteen years. Coxswain Smith won the silver medal in Pecember, 1920, for the part he took, as second coxswain, in the rescue of the crew of the smack A.J.W., of Rye. On his retirement he was awarded a pension and a certificate of service..