Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., has been appointed Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He will succeed Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., who is retiring at the end of the year from the post of Secretary after nearly 40 years in the service of the Institution.

Captain Dixon entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as a cadet in 1933. In the last war he saw active service in a variety of sea appointments.

These included commanding an anti-submarine trawler in the North Atlantic and motor gun boats in the Straits of Dover and the North Sea. He was men- tioned in despatches.

Among post-war appointments he held were those of Deputy Director, Defence Operations Staff, Ministry of Defence; and Naval Attache, Ankara, Tehran and Baghdad.

He retired from the Royal Navy in 1966 and joined the Royal National Life-boat Institution in January, 1967, as Personal Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut.-Commander W. L. G. Dutton. He is married with one son and lives at Twyford, near Winchester.

Mr. Whorlow joined the staff of the R.N.L.I. in 1930. He was appointed Assistant Secretary in 1953 and became Secretary in 1961.

During the last war he served in the 3rd County of London Yeomanry, taking part in the African, Sicilian and Italian campaigns of the Eighth Army, and was twice wounded. His home is in London. He is unmarried.

Mr. John Atterton has been appointed Deputy Secretary. Mr. Atterton, who is 50, first joined the Institution's staff in 1936 and worked in the Chief Inspector's department, and subsequently in various departments in the Secretary's General Office. He was appointed Assistant Secretary in 1963. During the war he served in the Royal Corps of Signals.

The following appointments and movements of staff are also reported: Lieut.-Commander D. B. Cairns, R.N.R., to Head Office as Inspector of Life-boats (Staff 2).

Commander L. A. Forbes, R.N., to Inspector of Life-boats (General Duties).

Lieut.-Commander P. F. Gladwin, R.N.R., to Inspector of Life-boats, No. 2 Area.

Lieut.-Commander H. H. Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., to Superintendent of Depot.

Mr. R. D. Pike to Inspector of Life-boats, No. 7 Area.

Lieutenant E. D. Stogdon, R.N.V.R., Superintendent of Depot, to the Institution's Head Office as Inspector of Life-boats, Inshore Rescue Boats.

Mr. G. E. Price, Assistant District Organising Secretary (South West), to take over duties as District Organising Secretary of a new district with headquarters at Bedford.

Lieut.-Commander P. F. B. Roe, R.N., appointed as Inspector of Life-boats, No. 8 Area.

Commander P. D. Sturdee, O.B.E., R.N., as Personal Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Life-boats..