NORTH DEAL, KENT • AND FETHARD, Co. WEXFORD.—The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these stations have recently been replaced by new boats— the North Deal boat being a large sail- ing boat of the self-righting type, named the Charles Dibdin, her cost having been provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, and she is so named in memory of the celebrated naval poet, who died in 1813, and of his great grandson, for thirty-six years past its honorary sec- retary. The Life-boat is fully endowed.

The Fethard new boat is also of the self-righting type, and is named, like her predecessor, the Helen Blake, her cost and endowment having been met from the munificent bequest of the late Mrs.

Blake, of Handcross, Sussex, for this particular part of the Irish coast..