THE Institution, at the end of last year, awarded a special Vellum to Mr.

Edward Wigg, sen., of Kessingland, in recognition of the exceptional services which he and his family have rendered to the Life-boat Service. He himself is Winchman, and became a member of the Crew in 1870. One of his sons is Coxswain, another is Signalman, and. two others are members of the Crew, and have been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal. Three grandsons and one great-grandson are members of the Crew.

A son-in-law is Second Coxswain, and one of his daughters and one of his grand- daughters-in-law are members of the T-J:—' T :*_ v 4. PI,.:U rri.- tr-ii Ladies' Life-boat Guild. The Vellum presented to Edward Wigg was in the form of a family tree, with the dates, not of birth, but of enrolment in the Life-boat Service.

The presentation of the Vellum was made on 19th December, and a Life-boat concert was held at the same time, which raised over £35, a very fineresult for a fishing village, the population of which is under 2,000. Kessingland has a very active Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of which the Hon. Secretary is the wife of the Hon. Secretary of the Station itself, who wrote, with regard to the concert: " The whole of the proceeds came from the fishing community, owners, skippers and crews of our local steam drifters and trawlers.

The members of this Branch of the Guild are almost entirely owners' and skippers' wives and daughters, all of whom are workers, and those that can afford to do so give generously." Another fine record is that of the family of Coxswain John Stonehouse, of Teesmouth who, as announced in the Awards to Coxswains and Life-boatmen, has been awarded a pension and a Certificate of Service on retiring. He has been a member of a Life-boat Crew for the past fifty-two years, has served with the Life-boats at Teesmouth, Eedcar and Saltburn, and has been theTeesmouth Coxswain for the last eleven years. Six of his sons are also Life- boatmen, two of them being Second Coxswains, one at Redcar and the other at Teesmouth.

These are both remarkable records, and we shall be very glad to receive from the Hon. Secretaries of Stations any similar records for publication in The Lifeboat..