Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to time to keep branches informed of the Institution's work.

It is hoped to resume publication of the journal later on and to print in it full accounts of all services which have taken place in the meantime, so that there will be no gap in the published records..