Tenby and Angle, Pembrokeshire.

D USING August the Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats which have been stationed on the coast of Wales at the Stations of Tenby and Angle, both in Pembroke- shire.

Both the new Life-boats are of the Watson Cabin type, 45 feet 6 inches by 12 feet 6 inches, described on p. 570.

The Angle Ceremony.

There has been a Life-boat Station at Angle since 1867. Its Life-boats have rescued 105 lives and the Institution has awarded three Silver and one Bronze Medal for gallantry.

The Motor Life-boat, which has replaced a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, has been provided out of a legacy from the late Mr. Benjamin Elson, of Hove, Sussex.

The Inaugural Ceremony took place on 13th August. Brigadier-General H. E. B. Leach, C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.L., J.P., presided. In opening the Ceremony General Leach gave a short history of the Station and spoke in particular of the great services of the late Colonel R. W. B. Mirehouse, C.M.G., D.L., J.P., and Mrs. Mirehouse.

Colonel Mirehouse became Chairman of the Branch in 1886. In 1890 he was appointed Honorary Secretary, con- tinuing his work for the Branch until his death in 1914. In 1893 he was awarded the Thanks of the Institution for going out in the Life-boat to the rescuing of a shipwrecked man, and in the following year he was awarded the Silver Medal for the gallant part which he "took, with two other men, in rescuing twenty-seven lives from shipwreck.

After a prayer by the Rev. J. Aubrey, Rector of Angle, Lieut-Commander G. R.

Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., District Inspector of Life-boats, presented the Life-boat to the Branch and gave a full description of her.

Mrs. Mirehouse accepted the Life- boat, and in doing so expressed the gratitude of Angle to the donor of the Boat and to the Institution. She had no doubt that the present Crew would carry on the great traditions of the Station and show themselves worthy of this splendid gift.

The Bishop of St. David's (the Right Rev. D. L. Prosser, D.D.) dedicated the Life-boat, and Mary, Lady Meyrick named her Elizabeth Elson.

A vote of thanks to Lady Meyrick was proposed by Mr. Seymour Allen, J.P., and seconded by General Sir Ivor Philipps, and a vote of thanks to General Leach" was proposed by the Rev. T.

Aubrey and seconded by Captain Vivian Lewis, M.C., the District Organizing Secretary. The singing at the Cere- mony was led by the choir of the Angle Parish Church, accompanied by the Town Band.

The Tenby Ceremony.

Tenby has had a Life-boat Station since 1852. Its Life-boats have rescued 200 lives, and six Silver Medals have been awarded for gallantry.

The new Motor Life-boat has been built and endowed out of a legacy from the late Mr. John R. Webb, of Mow- macre Hill, Leicestershire, and has replaced another Motor Life-boat, pro- vided out of this legacy, which was stationed at Tenby in 1923. This Life- boat was the first to be built of the Watson Cabin type, and was the first Motor Life-boat with a cabin on our coasts.

The Inaugural Ceremony took place on 16th August and Mr. Charles G.

Ammon, a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution and late Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, presided.

Among those present were the Mayor and Corporation, Major Gwilym Lloyd George, Member of Parliament for Pembroke, the Chairman of the Pem- brokeshire County Council and the Principal of University College, Aberystwyth.

The Rev. Canon Bickerton C.

Edwards, M.A., Rector of Tenby, opened the Ceremony with prayer.

Mr. Ammon then presented the Life- boat to the Branch. In doing so he recalled the fine history of the Station.

He said what a credit it was to the nation that the Life-boats were a voluntary service and that no appeal to the public on their behalf had ever been made in vain.

Alderman W. H. Thomas, J.P., Chair- man of the Branch, accepted the Life- boat and expressed the gratitude of the Branch to the donor and the Institution.

Lieut.-Commander G. R. Cousins, D.S.C.

R.N., District Inspector of Life-boats, described the Boat; the Bishop of St.

David's (the Right Rev. David L.

Prosser, D.D.) dedicated her, and Mr.

Ammon then named her John R. Webb " in the service of the great brotherhood of the seas." A vote of thanks to Mr. Ammon was passed.

Before the dedication a presentation of money was made to three members of the Crew who have recently retired : Mr. John Williams, who had been Bowman and then Coxswain for twenty- six years, Mr. R. Hooper, who had been Second Coxswain for twenty-five years and had served in the boat' altogether forty-five years, and Mr. William Thomas, who had been a member of the Crew and then Bowman for thirty- nine years. These gifts were from Miss Harvey, a member of the Tenby Committee, who was prevented by ill- ness from being present. Miss Harvey has since died and left £100 to the Institution..