The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow- ment for the bravest act of life-saving in 1968, for his courage and seaman- ship on 1st April, 1968, when the crew of 15 of the trawler Ross Puma were rescued by the Longhope life-boat..