DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.

Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the other escorted into harbour.

The Belgian Administration of Marine has 3 life-boat stations.

Denmark A Danish life-boat rescued four of the crew of the Grimsby trawler Forward, which had stranded near Esbjerg on the 5th of March, and another vessel rescued a fifth man.

The Danish Life-boat Society has 58 life-boat stations with a fleet of '23 motor life-boats and 19 pulling and sailing boats; 30 of the stations have rocket apparatus, and there are 16 stations with this apparatus only.

Finland There were no services to British vessels.

The Life-saving Society of Finland has 25 stations, with 14 motor life- boats.

France Life-boats from Gravelines, Calais, Boulogne and Dieppe went to the help of four British yachts and a small cargo boat.

The French Central Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked has a fleet of 41 motor life-boats and 10 sailing life-boats.

Germany There were no services to British vessels.

The German Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has a fleet of 32 motor- life-boats, including the first of a new type of cruising life-boat, with a ramp at the stern down which a small boat can be launched.

Holland The Royal North and South Holland Life-saving Society went to the help of two British ships. It rescued one man from one of them, a naval motor launch which had exploded after being struck by a jet aircraft during com- bined manoeuvres.

The Society has 25 mqtor life-boats.

The RoyalSouth Holland Society for Saving the Shipwrecked went to the help of the British steamer Radmar, which had gone aground off the Hook of Holland and took off the crew of about thirty-five. It also towed a British yacht into harbour.

The Society has 8 motor life-boats.

Iceland A Scottish fishing vessel, which had lost her rudder, was towed into harbour.

The National Life-saving Associa- tion of Iceland has 2 100-ton cruising life-boat cutters, 2 motor life-boats and 9 pulling life-boats which work from the shore, 66 stations with rocket apparatus, 4 radio direction-finding stations and 26 shelters for ship- wrecked seamen.

Norway There were no services to British vessels.

The Norwegian Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has a fleet of 27 cruising ketches.

Portugal There were no services to British vessels.

The Portuguese Institution for Sav- ing the Shipwrecked has a fleet of 12 motor life-boats, 4 pulling boats with auxiliary engines, 18 pulling and sailing boats and 6 pulling boats.

Spain There were no services to British vessels.

The Spanish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has a fleet of 20 life-boats, some with motors and some with oars.

Sweden There were no services to British ships.

The Swedish Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck has 6 cruising motor life-boats, 16 working from stations on shore and 7 stations with rocket apparatus.

The United States of America The United States Coastguard has a fleet of 687 life-boats. 646 of these are motor boats of various types, and 41 are pulling surf-boats.

British Services to Foreign Vessels British life-boats went to the help of 61 ships and 6 aircraft belonging to 18 different foreign countries, and rescued from them 106 lives—15 of the ships were from the Netherlands; 6 from France; 6 from Norway; 6 from Sweden; 5 from Germany; 4 from Denmark; 3 from Greece; 3 from Panama; 3 from the United States; 2 from Finland; 1 each from the Argentine, Belgium, Estonia, Iceland, Liberia, Spain and Turkey, and one •was Swiss. The six aircraft belonged to the United States Air Force with headquarters in Great Britain. Besides the lives rescued, life-boats saved three of the ships..