A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.

C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by the Shoreham and Wells life-boats and visited ship- building yards in Cowes. On the 27th of July they were entertained by the Institution to a luncheon at which the Deputy Chairman, Commodore the Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R., was in the chair. In ad- dition to Mr. Langseth the mission included representatives of the Danish Coast Reserve Service, the Royal Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen, the Association of Danish Life-boatmen and the Federation of Danish Fishermen.

English and French life-boatmen met in the Channel five miles from Dover on Sunday, the 6th of Sep- tember, when a visit was paid by the Calais and Boulogne life-boats. The crew of the Dover life-boat and members of the branch went out in the reserve boat The Lord South- borough (Civil Service No. 1). The three life-boats then put into Dover harbour and the guests, who included the French Consul for Folkestone and Dover, the presidents of the Calais and Boulogne life-boat committees and a French deputy for the Pas de Calais, were entertained to luncheon. The host at the luncheon was the chairman of the Dover committee, Mr. H. T.

Hawksfield, at whose private expense the whole visit was arranged.

Nine Germans attending a course organised by the German section of the Foreign Office at Wilton Park visited the headquarters of the Insti- tution on the 30th of September, when they were given a talk on the history and organisation of the Life-boat Service. The German party included local government officials, trade union leaders, journalists and teachers..