Bert Smith, weighbridge clerk at George Gadd’s, Peartree Lane, was pictured being thanked by Dudley RNLI chairman Karl Falk, together with Ivan Garland, a committee member of Dudley RNLI and an employee of George Gadd’s.

Longlands School pupils marked Mr Downing’s fundraising achievements in Stourbridge with an exhibition. Pictured with Mr Downing were teacher Mrs Margaret Horton and pupils Gavin Harper, Darren Adams, Richard Westwood and Malcolm Riley.

Lichfield Ladies Lifeboat Guild raised money with a fork luncheon event at Lichfield Civic Hall. Chairman Mrs Joyce Kemp was pictured with helpers.

Winner Mrs Irene Johnson of Gorge Road, Sedgley, was pictured with Wolves striker John Richards and RNLI Wolverhampton chairman Tony Guy.

Pictured were RNLI Wolverhampton branch chairman, Malcolm Timmins, Midlands’ organising secretary Basil Hutchinson, Commander Ted Pritchard of Poole and Tony Guy, president, at the surprise presentation at The Anchor, Coven.

Karl Falk, Dudley’s lifeboat appeals organiser, was pictured with widow Mary Greenhaugh in Mousehole where he distributed cheques to affected families.

Karl Falk was pictured on the Cornish cliff top above the wreck of the Union Star in Lamorna Cove.

Black Country born artist Nigel Hallard was pictured in Mousehole harbour.

Brothers Paul and Martin Brockman, sons of lost lifeboatman Nigel Brockman.

Pictured was widow Mary Greenhaugh whose husband Charles, licensee of The Ship Inn, Mousehole, was lost and after the public donations and subsequent issues were raised in the aftermath of the disaster.