Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1989: Miss B. Openshaw, committee member of Penwortham branch for more than 20 years.

JULY 1989: Miss Fletcher, chairman of Farnworth and Kearsley branch from 1969 to 1989. She was awarded a silver badge in 1983.

SEPTEMBER 1989: Mrs S. Lawrence, honorary secretary of Ashton and Lea branch from 1978 to 1989.

Mr Ron Shardlow, honorary secretary of Keswick branch from 1979 to 1988.

NOVEMBER 1989: Mr Bill Shanks, founder member of Silloth branch in 1960 and souvenir secretary from 1969 to 1985. He was awarded a silver badge in 1984.

DECEMBER 1989: Mrs Esme Anderson, donor of the Newhaven Arun class lifeboat RNLB Keith Anderson.

Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell, coxswain of Blackpool lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1964. He joined the crew in 1923, and was second coxswain from 1947 to the end of 1954.

Captain G.R. Grieve, deputy launching authority of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1985 to January 1989 when he was appointed station honorary secretary.

Mrs M. Johnson, chairman of Accrington ladies' guild from 1967 to 1971 and from 1976 to 1988. She was awarded a silver badge in 1989.

Mr Philip Burslam, chairman of Blackpool station branch from 1977 to 1989..