COXSWAIN W. J. HARVEY of Newhaven, who died on the 27th March, 1962, had been a member of the Newhaven crew for twenty-two years. He was appointed coxswain in 1948 and retired in 1961. Coxswain Harvey, who was an employee of British Railways, was awarded the silver medal for the rescue of the crew of eight of the Danish auxiliary schooner Vega on the 27th November, 1954. In a year of out- standing services, including the rescue from the World Concord and the rescue of the sole survivor from the South Goodwin lightvessel, Coxswain Harvey was awarded the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1954..