Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate smothered in heavy seas on Port Talbot Bar. Twelve times, in the darkness and in heavy squalls of hail, the coxswain circled round through the surf and brought the life-boat alongside the frigate for her men to jump. The rescued Canadians spoke afterwards of the work of their rescuers as "magnificent" and "almost miraculous". Two of the life-boat men were over 70, two were in their sixties, and the average age of the crew was fifty-five.