Ex-coxswain John Walters died on 2nd September, 1965, at the age of 66. A distinguished member of the life-boat service, he had served as coxswain of the Fowey life-boat for over twenty-five years. He was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1947 for rescuing the crew of seven from the Empire Contamar, aground on rocks at night in a gale..