The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place on the east coast has been taken by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N., formerly inspector on the south coast. Commander Wheeler returned to the Navy at the beginning of the war. He was in command first of an armed yacht and then of an armed cross-channel packet, and he took part in the landings in Normandy on D-day as naval officer in control of four merchant ships earning assault infantry..