Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the Winchelsea life-boat, though manned by men from live Harbour.

The station was closed after the disaster on the loth of November, 1928, when the life-boat capsized with the loss of her whole crew of 17 men.

It was closed because there were no longer the men in that little village to man the life-boat.

The service-boards of the station were then presented by the Institution to the Mayor of Rye, and were placed at the Sailors' Home, but as they stood in the open and suffered from the weather, the Institution recently had new boards painted and offered them to the Church to be kept there as a permanent memorial of the station.

They are entitled ''Lives rescued by life-boats manned by the intrepid men of this village." At the service on the 27th of July the boards were handed to the church by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Bromet, K.B.E., D.S.O., now a member of the Committee of Man- agement of the Institution, and at that time Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, the birth place of the Institu- tion. They were accepted by the Vicar and dedicated by the Bishop of Lewes.

The Institution was represented at the ceremony by two of its Vice-Presi- dents, Sir John G. Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., and Mr. T. O. Gray, J.P..