Coxswain John Muggridge, of Hastings, on his first service in command of the life-boat, won the bronze medal, for rescuing seven lives from one of H.M. trawlers.

She had gone ashore and the life-boat found her at daybreak half under water, with heavy seas breaking over her. The motor mechanic, W. R. Hilder, also won the bronze medal, and Commander W. Highfield, O.B.E., R.N., honorary secretary of the station, Edward F. Adams, the second coxswain, and Frederick White, the bowman, the thanks of the Institution on vellum. A few days after the rescue Coxswain Muggridge lost his life, when his fishing boat went down, and three days after the medals had been awarded, Hilder, the motor mechanic, was killed in an air raid,.