At the annual presentation of awards meeting on May 15 Crew Member Arthur M. Hill of Largs lifeboat station received from HM the Queen Mother the silver medal awarded to him for the rescue on July 24, 1983, of a young girl trapped in the cabin of a motor cruiser which was capsized with only the bow above water. After several attempts, Crew Member Hill managed to duck down about three feet and get into the upturned hull where he found the girl with just her head in an air pocket. His first attempt to push her down under the coaming failed. Helmsman John Strachan then also entered the water and pushed up on one side of the hull, so that, as Arthur Hill pushed the girl down under the water, John Strachan was able to grab her legs and pull her clear. Arthur Hill himself managed to get clear of the hull unaided. The photograph was taken by Margaret Murray..