Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in twelve days. By winning three medals in twelve months he has done what no other life-boatman has ever done. The Institution has also awarded silver medals to the second coxswain and motor mechanic and bronze medals to the other four men of the crew. The steams* was lying with her stern on a reef. Other rocks lay close to her bow. Seas were breaking right over her. Coxswain Murphy took the life-boat through the passage, between the steamer's bow and the rock, which was little wider than the boat herself. He rescued all on board, and the life-boat was so loaded that her deck was awash. He had no room to turn her; he could not go out stern first through the narrow passage by which he had come; so he took her right across the reef on which the steamer's stern lay. It was a surge of broken water, which at any moment might swirl away and leave the life-boat to crash on the rocks but he chose his moment well and brought her safely across. Then for ten miles he had to feel his way - for visibility was very poor - through breaking seas and among rocks and reefs, with the life-boat always awash and sometimes rolling her rail right under.