A FRAMED letter signed by Capt. the Hon. H. M. Wyndham-Quin, Chairman of the Committee of Management, expressing the Institution's appreciation of the voluntary work of the officers and committee and of the devotion and courage of the Gorleston life-boat crews, has been sent to Gorleston to mark the centenary of the foundation of its station.

The Great Yarmouth life-boat station was established before 1825 by the Norfolk Shipwreck Association and was taken over by the Institution in 1857.

It closed in 1919. The Gorleston station, which was established by the Institution in 1866, was renamed Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in 1926.

Gorleston life-boat crews have saved over 1,800 lives..