Every year the Abbey Life Assurance Co. Ltd. donates a certain sum of money to charity. About two years ago there was a mobile display by the R.N.L.I, outside St. Paul's Cathedral which was directly opposite Abbey Life offices.

This was how Lymington, Hampshire, came to receive its new IRB on 22nd July, 1970.

The new boat—it bears the number 181—was handed over to Major General Ralph H. Farrant, C.B., a member of the Committee of Management, by Mr.

W. Daniel Dane, agency director of Abbey Life. Together with equipment she cost £1,000 and has replaced the craft which had been on station at Lymington for the past five years..