Early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon took off eleven of the crew of the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, which had struck the Minquiers Reef. For this service, a full account of which is given on page 632, Coxswain Edward Lar- balestier was accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum..