FOLLOWING on the retirement of Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., the Committee of Management have appointed Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chief Inspector of Life-boats. Commander Drury, who has been Deputy-Chief Inspector during the past two years, was before that District Inspector in the Western and then in the Northern District, and has been in the service of the Institu- tion for twenty years. Commander Drury is succeeded as Deputy-Chief Inspector by Captain R. L. Hamer, R.N., who has been a District Inspector since 1925, first in the Southern and then in the Northern District..