The first full annual meeting for five years was held in London on October 25th., *nd H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, presented the eight gold medals won during the war for conspicuous gallantry.

Sir Godfrey Baring,- Bt.,- chairman of the Institution, presided and the other speakers were Lord Winster, Minister for Civil Aviation, Commander H. T. de Booy, secretary and chief inspector of the North and South Holland Life-boat Institution, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork and Orrery, Mr. L. P. Stevens, honorary secretary of the Jersey life-boat station, Commodore the Earl Howe, and Rear-Admii&l T. P. H; Beamish. Commander de Booy and Mr. Stevens gave their personal experiences of carrying on the work of life-saving under the Germans..