Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier On September 3, 1983, Coxswain Berry took his lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King, three miles in among rocks to rescue three people from the yacht Cythara in a force 9 strong westsouth- westerly gale, pitch darkness, driving rain and 20-foot waves. The lifeboat twice struck rocks before the coxswain was able to find a way back out to the open sea after the rescue.

Coxswain Berry received a bar to his silver medal for this service..