• CI should like to tell about something that has given me an enormous amount of satisfaction; I think it was one of the proudest moments in my life when they made me the coxswain —and certainly the proudest moment in my dad's life. One day we went out to do a job. It was high tide. A little boy had fallen over a cliff.

When we got out there there were other rescue boats there as well. This boy had crawled down a sheer cliff and we could see him with his foot caught in the cleft of a rock. We could not get at him with a boat-hook, we could not do anything about it, but we could see this little lad hanging there with his foot caught. As I say, it was high tide, and I saw no possibility of getting this laddie out before low water. All the other rescue boats left, and we sheered off a bit. We had a chat about this, and I asked the boys if they would like to stay, because I felt that, as the mother had now been told that the boy had been found but that we could not get at him, she •would be pleased to know that there was somebody staying •with her boy.

So I put this to the boys, and, of course, quite unanimously they said, "Yes". We dropped the hook and waited there until low water. Then we covered the young boy and brought him ashore. Two days later his mother came to visit me. She said, "Apart from anything else, the fact that you were there, that somebody was with my boy at that time, pleased me". So it is things like that—though it need not be as bad as I have suggested —that make all these wonderful jobs that the Institution does worth vhile.'—Coxswain Crockford at the annual meeting..