Nine stations completed 150 years service in 1975 and were presented with anniversary vellums: Appledore, Courtmacsherry, Cromer, Dun Laoghaire, Hartlepool, Howth, Newcastle Co. Down, Padstow and Skegness.

(Right) At Dun Laoghaire Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman of the Institution, talks with Coxswain Eric Offer. (Below) At Skegness Coxswain Kenneth Holland introduces crew members and helpers to Lieut.- Commander P. E. C. Pickles, a deputy chairman of the Institution, and the Mayor of Skegness, who is screened by Neville Ball, honorary secretary; in foreground, Michael Pennell, divisional inspector of lifeboats, Eastern Division..