IN 1846 the Institution was asked to provide a life-boat for Kilmore, County Wexford, and it stationed a boat there on the 28th of July, 1847. She was put under the care of the coastguard.

There is no record of any services by this boat, and the station appears to have lapsed for some years, for in 1884 the Institution was again asked if it would provide a life-boat, and one was sent on the 19th of March of that year.

She was a 34-feet ten-oared self-righting life-boat named John Robert. Since then the work of the station has been •continuous, and it has had altogether five life-boats, including the present motor life-boat. They have been launched on service 56 times and have rescued 75 lives. The centenary of the station was celebrated on the 19th of July, 1947, by a public meeting at Kilmore Quay, at which Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork and Orrery, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, presented to Lieut.-Col. Thomas H.

Gibbon, O.B.E., the honorary secretary of the station, a centenary • vellum signed by the Duchess of Kent, as the Institution's President..