COMMANDER E. D. DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., the chief inspector of life-boats, will retire, under the age limit, on 31st December, 1938, and will be succeeded as chief inspector b)' Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the eastern district inspector. An article on Commander Drury's career will appear in the next number of The Life-boat..