• An appeal from Commander F. R.

H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I, and chairman of the Yachtsman's Life-boat Supporters' Association: 'By the end of July membership of the Y.L.A. had reached 8,200. Our target for this year is five figures and this can be achieved quite easily if every well-wisher of the life-boat service (among whom we number some 35,000 recipients of The Life-boat) will recruit one full member of the Association. You don't have to be a yachtsman to qualify as a supporter. A Y.L.A. enrolment form is enclosed with this issue. If you will persuade a friend to complete the form and you send it together with your name and address to the Y.L.A. office, we shall be pleased to send you 20 R.N.L.I. Christmas cards as a small token of our appreciation of your help. To qualify for free Christmas cards, completed enrolment forms mustreach the Y.L.A.,29a Castle Street, Salisbury, by 30th November. Just remember the simple formula 1 -j-1 =2—if we all pull together we'll get Y.L.A. membership into five figures by the end of the year'.