Cmdr. F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (second left), a deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., at Lowestoftin February, 1968, during a tour of life-boat stations along the East Anglian coast. With him at the life-boat station (from left to right) are Lieut.-Cmdr. D. J. Wilford, R.N.R., Inspector of No. 4 Life-boat Area; Mr. Tom Knott, the Lowestoft life-boat mechanic; Coxswain Harry Burgess, and Mr.

Michael Chapman, the new secretary of Lowestoft branch of the R.N.L.I..