The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new headquarters at Poole, Dorset.

From left to right: Lt-Cnulr The Hon. Greville Howard, 'RD, RNR, I'ice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, KBE, CD, DSO, DSC, Lt-Cmdr P. E. C. Pickles. MBE, RN R. Maj.-General Ralph H. Fan-ant, CB, Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, KBE, CB, Cmdr. F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNl'R, Chairman of the RNLI; Dr Geoffrey Hale, MBE, MB. BCh, Capt. Nigel Di on, RN, Director and Secretary; Mr J. R.

At tenon, MBE, Deputy Director; Lt-Cmdr W. L. G. Dutton, QBE, RD, RNR, Chief Inspector of Lifeboats; Mr E. G. E. Rayner, Mr William T. Bishop, CBE, FRICS, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, CBE, KCB, DSO.

by courtesy of Margaret Murray.