A centenary vellum has been awarded to the life-boat station at New Brighton, Cheshire. The station was established by the Institution in 1863 after a meeting had been held in Liverpool the previous year, when it was stated that a life-boat positioned at New Brighton would be able to reach wrecks quicker than those stationed at Liverpool and run by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

The Institution's first life-boat at the station was a tubular vessel and was built in Liverpool. She had a tremendous send-off, having taken part in a "grand demonstration" in Liverpool. She ar- rived at the station on the 24th January.

In the following year a second life-boat was added and at various times there have been three stations operating sim- ultaneously.

The present New Brighton life-boat is of the 52-foot Barnett type and was built in 1950. The boat, Norman B.

Corlett, was donated by Mr. W. E.

Corlett and members of his family.

Twenty-four medals have been awarded at this station—11 silver and 13 bronze—the most recent being voted to Coxswain George Stonall in 1957 for the rescue of the crew of a coaster..