Coxswain William Swankie, of Arbroath, who won the bronze medal of the Institution in February, 1940, for going to the help of a barge which wa» being bombed by a German aeroplane, and Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, who won the gold medal last January for superb seamanship and courage in rescuing the crew of a steamer which had struck on a reef, have both been awarded the British Empire Medal..