Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.

With the possible exception of Atlantic College in South Wales, where the R.N.L.I.'s inshore rescue boat is manned by students drawn from a variety of nations, Mr. Sudarsanam is believed to be the first Indian enrolled as an R.N.L.I, crew member. He is an electronics engineer and has been living in Britain for the past four years..