14th November, 1956.

SIR, I would like to record my apprecia- tion of the Life-boat Service in general, and of the Sheringham life-boat in particular.

I was unfortunate enough to be wrecked recently in S.S. Wimbledon, and we decidedly owe our lives to the coxswain and crew of Sheringham life- boat (assisted by Wells life-boat), who took us off the ship under the most extreme conditions, without injury to anybody, and with the most amazing coolness and devotion to duty I have ever witnessed.

I am not in a position to make a sizeable contribution, but I shall never pass a collecting box without dropping something in.

Would you please pass on my kindest regards, and this letter if possible, to the coxswain of Shering- ham life-boat.

Yours sincerely, (signed) WM. DRUMMOND.

110 Horsley Hill Road, South Shields.

Notice All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, or to Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A., the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, All enquiries about the work of the Institution or about this journal should be addressed to the Secretary.

The next number O/THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in JUNE, 1957.