Coxswain Benjamin Armitage of Hoylake died on the llth of August, 1960, at the age of 71. He was appoin- ted second coxswain in 1946 and cox- swain in 1948. He retired in 1951. In February 1943 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry when he and Coxswain Herbert Jones and Mr.

William Widdup, the station officer of coastguard, put out in a dinghy and rescued two men from a small boat.

The Institution also deeply regrets the deaths of four other former coxswains in the past year :—• COXSWAIN G. BRUNTON, of Dunbar.

COXSWAIN J. E. MORRIS, of Barmouth.

COXSWAIN T. H. PARNELL, of Aldeburgh COXSWAIN A. SLOAN, of Girvan..