SINCE the last number of The Life-boat appeared there have died Mr. R. O.

Hill, for many years honorary secretary at the stations of Drogheda (now closed) and Clogher Head ; Captain Thomas McCombie, of Dublin, a gold and silver medallist of the Institution; Mr. Ed- ward Bensley, for many years a member of the Gorleston life-boat crew, and a silver medallist; and Mr. William Mowat, for twenty-eight years second coxswain at Longhope, in the Orkneys.

Accounts of their life-boat services will be published in the next issue..