THE silver prize medal which the Spanish Life-boat Society awarded to Coxswain W. A. Rowe, of Coverack, for the rescue of the crew of seventeen of the steamer Mina Cantiquin, on the 4th of November, 1951, and the diplomas awarded to him and the six members of his crew, were presented at Coverack on the 18th of April by Captain Rafael Fernandez de Bobadilla, S.N., the naval attache at the Spanish Embassy in London.

With him was the Spanish consul- general from Southampton. One of the crew, Arthur Pengilly, had died a week before. His diploma was pre- sented to his son, and the audience stood in silence in his memory..