Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.

He retired in 1920 on account of ill- health, due to exposure on service, and he received a weekly allowance from the Institution until his death, in addi- tion to the usual coxswain's pension and certificate of service. During his twenty-five years as an officer of the boat 42 lives were rescued. The chief service in which he took part was to the S.S. Conservator, of London, in March, 1919. Her crew were rescued in a very heavy sea, and for the great courage and tenacity which Coxswain Bowen and his crew showed in a dangerous service he was awarded the Institution's bronze medal.

A number of other life-boat workers and members of life-boat crews have died this year; among them : the Rev.

Henry Vyvyan, of Cadgwith; Mr.

F. Le Boulanger, of The Mumbles; Captain David Rees, of New Quay (Cardigan), Mr. Charles Livingston, of New Brighton; Mr. Edward Dean, of Oldham, and Mrs. Robert Carpenter of Brighton. Accounts of their services to the Institution will appear in the next issue..