AT a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Fowey, Cornwall, on the 7th of December, 1959, Lieut.-Commander H.

H. Harvey, Western District Inspector, handed the vellum commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establish- ment of a life-boat station at Fowey to the Mayor of Fowey, Alderman A. L.

Evans, for safe keeping. Major D. R.

Carter, the honorary secretary of the station, outlined the station's history, pointing out that the station's first life- boat had been placed at Polkerris in 1859.

Since the station was established Fowey life-boats have been launched on service 144 times and have rescued 114 lives..