Mr. Francis le Boulanger, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who died on 18th April of this year, at the age of seventy-seven, had been the honorary secretary of the life-boat station for thirty-seven years. During that time its life-boats had rescued 70 lives. In 1903 he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for his services when the life-boat capsized, with the loss of six of her crew, returning from a vessel which did not need her help. In 1909 he was awarded inscribed binoculars in recognition of his general services to the station and five years later he was specially thanked for his help when the life-boat at the neighbouring station of Port Eynon twice capsized when going out to a vessel in distress, with the loss of three of her crew. In 1933 he was a- warded an inscribed aneroid barometer, and two years later his long and very distinguished services were recognized by his appointment as an honorary life-governor of the Institution, the highest distinction which it can give an honorary worker. Mr. le Boulanger was a distinguished figure in Swansea, both as a shipowner and as a yachtsman..