THE Swedish Life-boat Society has awarded to the Institution its plaque of merit and two diplomas, each of which has this record: Swedish Life-boat Society pre- sents to the Royal National Life-boat Institution its plaque of merit for out- standing service, and the Society begs that its sincere thanks and compli- ments may be conveyed to the brave British life-boatmen and especially to the crews on those Scottish life-boats which so ably assisted and saved Swedish sailors during this stormy winter." The Scottish life-boats were those at Buckie, Whitehills and Stornoway.

Buckie and Whitehills went to the help of the steamer Frej, of Stockholm, in a whole gale, with very heavy seas, on the 8th of January last. Buckie took off nineteen of her crew. She had to go alongside the steamer seven times and was damaged in doing it.

Whitehills stood bv the steamer until a tug came to take her in tow.

Stornoway landed twenty men from the motor vessel Hervor Bratt, of Gothenburg, which went ashore in the Outer Hebrides on the 20th of January last.

The plaque and diplomas were pre- sented by the Swedish ambassador in London to Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.R.D., P.C., R.N.V.R., the deputy chairman of the committee of management of the Institution. The two diplomas, and framed photographs of the plaque, have been presented by the Institution to the Buckie and Stornoway stations..