THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited Ramsgate and Broadstairs .on the 19th of May. At Ramsgate she opened and named the new landing stage and laid the foundation stone of the extension of the out patient department of the hospital.

After opening the landing stage, the Duchess had presented to her Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie, and the life-boat crew, and Mr. Howard Knight, D.S.M..

the late coxswain and other former members of the crew.

At Broadstairs the Duchess visited the Yarrow Home, which is part of Westminster Hospital and afterwards, on the steps of the Home, presented to Mr. A. J. Pay, the harbourmaster, and Mr, E. J. M. Croom and Mr. B. C.

Wood, boatmen, the vellums which the Institution awarded them for their gallant attempt, on the 19th of November, 1947, at great risk to themselves, to rescue in heavy seas a boy who had been washed off the pier.* *A full account of their attempt was published, in the last issue of The life-boat..