ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New Fresh Wharf, London Bridge. Here on Sun- day afternoon, the 27th, she was open to the public during the afternoon and it was announced that the charges for admission would be given to the British Life-boat Service. Although she was not open until two o'clock a queue started to form at ten in the morning.

Four thousand one hundred and fourteen people went over the steamer, and Swedish Lloyd and the British and Northern Shipping Agency most kindly gave the Institution the gross takings, £480 10s. 6d..