CAPTAIN ANDREW STEPHEN, harbour- master of Fxaserburgh, who died on the 30th of December, 1948, was joint honorary secretary of the life-boat station for over eleven years. He was appointed towards the end of 1936, and retired at the beginning of 1948.

During the war of 1989 he did most gallant and distinguished service. He went out regularly in the life-boat, although he was well over sixty years old, and won both the bronze and silver medals of the Institution for gallantry, when acting on one occasion as second- coxswain, and on the other as cox- swain. He was also one of the life- boatmen to be awarded the 1939-45 Star.

In 1944 he was appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution, the highest honour which it can give an honorary member, and on his retirement in January, 1948, he received its thanks on vellum..