IT is hoped in future to publish each year in the summer number of The Life-boat, the record of the services of foreign life-boats to British vessels during the previous year. The record for 1932 is as follows : The United State* of America.

THE life-boat service of the United States helped nine British vessels in the course of the year. Three of these vessels had stranded; the other six had broken down at sea. The three stranded vessels were refloated, and all nine were towed to safety. Ten lives were rescued from peril.

France.

FRENCH life-boats went to the help of two British vessels. One was a Guernsey steamer which had run ashore in a fog. The life-boat rescued seven people from her. The other vessel was an English yacht, the owner of which had been injured by an accident on board, and the life-boat towed her in.

Holland.

A life-boat of the South Holland Society for the Rescue of the Ship- wrecked rescued two men from a motor racing boat, of Glasgow, which had caught fire two miles from shore.

Belgium.

Two British yachts which were in difficulties at sea were towed into safety by Belgian life-boats.

Iceland.

THE National Safety Association of Iceland went to the help of two English trawlers, one of Hull and one of Grimsby.

The Hull trawler had gone ashore in a fog and her crew were landed.

Later the trawler herself was refloated by the English patrol boat Godetia, with the help of an Icelandic coast- guard vessel. The Grimsby trawler went ashore in a heavy gale and snow- storm. She gave her position wrongly and the two motor boats sent out by the National Safety Association re- turned without being able to find her, but her crew were rescued and the trawler herself refloated by a coast- guard vessel.

British Services to Foreign Vessels.

As already recorded in The Life-boat, services were rendered last year by British life-boats to fifteen foreign vessels belonging to nine different countries, and 111 lives were rescued from them. Two of the vessels were French, two Dutch, two Belgian, two Swedish, two Norwegian, two from the Republic of Panama, one German, one Italian and one Spanish..