THE Danish Life-boat Service com- pleted its first hundred years on March 26th, 1952. In these hundred years it has rescued 12,414 lives at the cost of 59 lives of its life-boatmen.

The Institution sent it the following telegram: "The Royal National Life-boat Institution sends its heartiest con- gratulations to the Danish Life-boat Service on the completion of the first hundred years of its work, its heartfelt thanks for the English lives which dur- ing those hundred years have been rescued by Danish life-boatmen and its warmest good wishes to the Service for its second century.".