IN the last issue of The Life-boat two cases were recorded of ladies who had continued their work for the life-boat service when crippled by serious acci- dents. There is a third to be added to them. Miss Silvester, the honorary secretary of the St. Alban's and Har- penden branch, was very seriously injured in a motor accident at the end of July, 1932, and Miss Leishman, the honorary secretary of the St. Alban's Ladies' Life-boat Guild, was badly hurt in the same accident. Miss Silvester was still not sufficiently recovered, nine months later, to be present at the annual meeting of the institution to receive the vellum recording her appointment as an honorary life-governor of the institution, but in spite of her injuries she has continued to look after the work of the branch. The subscriptions of the branch have remained the same as in the previous year, and life-boat day in St. Albans raised £196 as compared with £188 in the previous year..