Presentation salver to B. Peart of the lifeboat 'Elizabeth Simpson'.

Small round silver salver with a shaped border, standing on four feet. The centre of the salver has a small depiction of the boat above an inscription: 'PRESENTED TO B.PEART ESQ., by the crew of the ELIZABETH SIMPSON in recognition of the untiring and valuable service he has rendered to the boat and her crew'.

A list of 37 names of the crew radiate in a cross from the edges of the salver:
'E.BENSLEY, C. BENSLEY, J.BROWN, W.BROWN, J.BROWN, C.CHILVERS, N.CHILD, R.CHILD, J.GEORGE, W.HALFNIGHT, G.STUBBS, J.TAYLOR, J.WOODS, C.WOODS, V.WOODS, F.WOODS, A.WOODS, J.WOODS, J.WRIGHT, S.SPILLINGS, J.FLEMING, A.WILKINSON, S.FARMAN, H.BOWLES, H.STANLEY, W.BUSH, J.BUSH, J.WHILEY, S.HALFNIGHT, C.JOHNSON, H.LEGGET, R.LEGGET, F.LANE, W.NEWSON, B.NEWSON, J.POWLEY, J.STUBBS'.

The Gorleston Volunteer Lifeboat 'Elizabeth Simpson' was built by Beeching Brothers of Great Yarmouth in 1889 and is still in existence and on the National Register of Historic Vessels. She is one of the longest serving and oldest lifeboats in the UK, having served for fifty years 1889-1939, saving over five hundred lives. After 1939 she carried passengers and was still taking up to ninety people until 1993. She never lost a crew member or passenger.