When Mrs Anne Armstrong, former American Ambassador to Britain, visited Plymouth lifeboat station in February, Coxswain John Dare welcomed her aboard the 44' Waveney lifebout Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II with a yellow rose posy before presenting a commemorative plaque, Mrs Armstrong, a good friend to the American/British lifeboat appeal, was accompanied by the Lord Mayor of Plymouth (r.), Mr Arthur Floyd.

photograph by courtesy of Western Morning News.