COXSWAIX HERBERT RAWCLIFFE, who was appointed coxswain of the Fleet- wood life-boat on the 1st of January.

1954. lost his life in February in an accident at sea in the course of his duties as a Trinity House pilot.

He had served as second coxswain from the end of 1947 to the end of 1953, and before then for seven years as bowman. One of the last services on which he went out was that des- cribed on page 672..