LAST year, for the first time, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat was unable to take part in the Armistice Day Service on llth November. She was called out on service at 1.30 in the morning, and did not return for twelve hours.* In place of the Life-boat Crew, two ex-Coxswains carried the wreath of * See p. 429.

poppies and laurel leaves to the Parish Church, and this wreath and the others which were dedicated at the service, were taken out in a pilot cutter, instead of the Life-boat. They were then com- mitted to the sea by the Vicar in honoured memory of the men of the Navy, Merchant Service and Fishing Fleets who gave their lives in the Great War..