WHEN the Duchess of Kent visited Swansea on the 29th of October to attend the Festival of Music, she met the widows of the life-boatmen of The Mumbles who lost their lives when the life-boat capsized on the 23rd of April, 1947.

They were presented to her at the Guildhall and she told them how sorry she was to have been prevented by illness from presenting to them her- self the certificates of honour which they received from the Institution at its annual meeting in October, 1947..