OWING to the very large number of services early in the year it is possible to include in this number of The Life- boat the accounts only of those reported to the February and March meetings of the Committee of Management.

Those reported to the April meeting have been held over until the next number. It has been necessary to hold over also all accounts for February, March and April of services by shore- boats, and a number of articles which it had been hoped to include in this number; among them the full account of the service of the Longhope motor life-boat to the French trawler Nep- tunia, for which a bronze medal was presented at the annual meeting, and the record of the services of foreign life- boats to British vessels during 1935..