Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at the age of eighty-three. At the age of ten he went to Edinburgh, and became assistant to his uncle, who was a book- seller. After two years of bookselling he went to sea, at the age of sixteen, and then became a fisherman. He was appointed second coxswain of the Stromness life-boat in 1891, and seven years later he became coxswain. As coxswain he served for seventeen years, retiring in 1915 at the age of sixty, owing to ill health. He was pensioned by the Institution and awarded a certificate of service; while he was an officer of the life-boat she was launched on service 21 times and rescued 87 lives. His outstanding service was the rescue of three men from the trawler Shakespeare, of Hull, which went ashore at the Point of Spoil, on llth December, 1907, in a heavy sea. For his skill and gallantry as coxswain in that rescue, Coxswain Greig was awarded the Institution's silver medal..