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Ramsgate's Coat of Arms

THE town of Ramsgate has decided, in celebration of the jubilee of its incor- poration as a borough, to apply for the grant of supports to the borough arms. After consulting with Sir Gerald Wollaston, M.V.O., Garter King of Arms, she has chosen as the supports figures of a coastguard and a life- boatman. No borough certainly has more right to a life-boatman as a support to its arms, for there has been a life-boat station at Ramsgate since 1802, twenty-two years before the Institution itself was founded, and it has the magnificent record of 1,355 lives rescued since 1851..