The gold medal for gallantry has been awarded to Lieuteaant W. H. Bennison, C.G.M.,R.N.V.R., coxswain of the Hartlepool life-boat, the silver medal to H. W. Jefferson, the motor mechanic, and the bronze medal to each of the seven other members of the crew, for rescuing five men from a steamer, which had been driven ashore ia a gale and had then broken in half. The two halves were 200 yards apart in very shallow water. Those on the stern part were rescued from the shore by the life-saving rocket apparatus and those on the bow by the life-boat. They were being swept by heavy seas aad cewld not have lived much longer. Heavy seas were breaking all the time in the life-boat, and so violent were they that at times she was almost standing on end,.