The Royal National Life-boat Institution's award for what was, in the Institution's judgment, the best factual account of a service by a life-boat to appear in a newspaper in 1965 has been made to Air. T. G. Barker of the Whitby Gazette. The report, published on 3rd December, told of the service by the Whitby life-boat when she rescued the crew of fourteen of the motor vessel Fred Everard.

A full account of this service appears on page 67..