The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, spent an hour with the RNLI when visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy last autumn. (Above right—Royal Marine photograph) He was transferred by Atlantic 21 1LB to (above) Arun class lifeboat 54-03, where he met senior officers of the RNLI: (from left, clockwise) Captain Fitch, RN, Symington Macdonald, senior staff officer (technical), Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management, Sir Edward Ashmore, Commander D. B. Cairns, RNR, chief of operations, Lieut. E. Cough, RN, staff officer (communications) and Captain Nigel Dixon, director..