The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., sent the following message: 'On behalf of the Committee of Management, I would like to thank you all for the truly magnificent way in which you responded to the British Red Cross Society's appeal for inshore rescue boats for operation in East Pakistan. The remarkable speed with which this request was met is in the finest traditions of the Institution. I would also like to send my personal thanks to all those who volunteered to accompany the boats to East Pakistan. . . .'.In recognition of their humanitarian efforts while helping in the flood relief work the thanks of the R.N.L.I, inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Lieutenant Stogdon, Mr. Brinton, Mr. Cole and Mr. Pelham.