COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEWART DASS, of Longhope, in the Orkneys, died in January of this year. He had retired in 1946, at the age of sixty-eight, after serving for three years as second cox- swain and then over twelve years as coxswain.

In February, 1936, he won the Institution's bronze medal, and a silver medal from the French govern- ment, for the rescue by night of the crew of forty-one men of the French trawler, Neptunia, which was lying on the rocks in a heavy sea..