HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1959 included : K.C.M.G. COMMANDER THE RIGHT HONOURABLE A. H. P.

NOBLE, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.

(Retd.), a former member of the Committee of Management.

K.B.E. VICE-ADMIRAL GEOFFREY THISTLETON-SMITH, C.B.E., G.M., M.B.E., also a former member of the Committee of Management.

O.B.E. MR. B. R. DOUGLASS, honorary secretary of Londonderry branch.

M.B.E. MRS. W. L. ELSE, J.P., chairman of the St. Helens ladies' life-boat guild.

M.B.E. MR. R. A. B. OAKLEY, Surveyor of Life-boats.

MR. RICHARD DIMBLEBY, O.B.E., who made the last appeal on behalf of the Institution broadcast by the B.B.C., was promoted C.B.E..