Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at Cowes and then as Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats. He had formerly been employed at the Thames Ironworks, where he worked on the detailed design and construction of the first motor life- boats built by that firm. During the last war he was employed by the Admiralty as a surveyor..