Lieutenant F. W. Hayes, E.N.B., late District Inspector of Life-boats, died in a nursing home on 21st August. He was only in his thirty-fourth year. He was educated at Malvern College, and then became a cadet on H.M.S. Conway.

He left the Conway with a permanent appointment in the Royal Naval Reserve, and served for three years in the Ellerman-Hall Line, obtaining his Master's Certificate. On the outbreak of war he joined H.M.S. Caronia, an armed merchant ship on the Atlantic Patrol, serving on her as Boarding Officer. Towards the end of 1916 he joined the Submarine Service, in which he remained until the end of the -war.

In April, 1920, he was appointed a District Inspector of Life-boats, and was sent to Ireland. There he remained for a year, and was then transferred to the Southern District, where he served until January of this year, when ill- health compelled him to leave the Life- boat Service..