Launch of Si David's lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Joseph Soar (Civil Service No. 34).

The photograph was taken by J. Anthony Aldersley who is a branch member at New Mi/ton, Hampshire.

At the annual presentations of awards at the Royal Festival Hall in May, William Morris, who is coxswain of St David's lifeboat and also verger of St David's Cathedral, received the bronze medal for gallantly for the service on March I I , 1978, to a motor fishing vessel with engine failure in danger of drifting on to rocks in heavy, breaking overfalls..