COMMANDER S. W. F. BENNETTS, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was ap- pointed Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-boats on 1st of July. He was previously District Inspector (General), in which appointment he came to the Institution on 16th of February, 1949.

Commander Bennetts was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth, and subse- quently specialised in submarines.

Apart from twenty months' service in H.M.S. Revenge, he was in command of submarines and destroyers from Jan- uary 1933 to September 1944. In 1943, while serving in the Mediterranean in command of H.M.S. Bicester, he was awarded the D.S.O. for sinking a Ger- man submarine, and the D.S.C. for anti-shipping sweeps in the Sicilian Channel. In 1942, during the initial landings in North Africa, he was mentioned in despatches.

From October 1944 to November 1948, he served at the Admiralty, in the department of Naval Equipment..