QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the establish- ment of a life-boat station at Walmer one hundred years ago at a ceremony which took place at the Walmer boat-house on the 23rd of May, 1956.

Sir Gerald Wollaston, chairman of the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch, was in the chair.

H.M. the Queen Mother spoke of the proud record of service of the Walmer station. At one time shortly after the second world war Walmer was the busiest life-boat station in the country. Up to the time vhen~the ceremony took place its life-boats had been launched on service 480 times and had rescued 675 lives..