The annual meeting was held in London on October 18th, and the seven life-boatmen who have won medals for gallantry since the end of the war were present. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided and read a message from the President, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. The other speakers were, the Right Hon. A. V. Alexander, M.P., until a short time before the meeting First Lord of the Admiralty, and new Minister of Defence designate, Commodore the Earl Howe, the Bishop of Portsmouth and the Duke of Montrose. - Silver medals were presented to Coxswain William Peters, of St. Ives, Cornwall, Coxswain John Murt, of Padstow and Robert Harland, of the Whitby crew; and bronze medals to Coxswain James Watkins, of Angle, Coxswain Thomas Bloom, of Walton and Frinton, Coxswain Murfield, of Whitby, and Coxswain Duncan Newlands, of Campbeltown..