THIS Motor Life-boat went from Cowes to her Station by sea in August, 1922, but it was found necessary to postpone the actual ceremony of inaugurating the boat until the spring of this year. The Boat is of the Watson type, 45 feet by 11 feet with a 45-h.p. engine, and has been built out of three legacies which, with the consent of the executors, have been amalgamated. These legacies had been received from the late Mr.

William Kirkhope, of Edinburgh, the late Mr. Charles Bailey, of Brighton, and the late Miss Charlotte Mclnroy, of Bridge of Allan.

Buckie has had a Life-boat Station since 1860, and was chosen as one of the Stations at which Motor Life-boats should be placed, as being one of the chief centres of the Scotch fishing industry.

The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Lord Lieutenant of Banflshire, was to have presented the Boat to the Institution on behalf of the representatives of the three donors, but was prevented from doing so by illness, and the presentation was made by Sir William Martin, J.P., the Institution's late Organising Secretary for Scotland.

In the course of his speech Sir William spoke of the enormous increase in the cost of life-boats and the general expenses of the Service in recent years.

The Buckie Boat had cost £8,000 to build, and the Boathouse and Slipway £15,000, making a total of £23,000 spent on this one Station, the ninth out of the forty-four Scottish Stations to be equipped with a Motor Life-boat.

The Institution appealed to men and women of all classes to enable it to carry on the Service, but especially to the owners and the crews of the fishing fleets.

In the last three years no less than one- fourth of the services of the Life-boats had been to trawlers and drifters. Yet in spite of this, and in spite of the large fortunes made out of the fishing industry, the contributions made by it to the Institution were entirely inadequate. In large fishing centres, like Buckie, they varied from £1 to a little over £50. That last sum, he was glad to say, came from Aberdeen, but even £50, from such a source, was miserably inadequate.

Every crew should consider it a first duty to make a joint contribution each time that they returned to harbour with a good catch. There ought to be an earnest determination on the part of all engaged in the industry, whether as owners or men, to co-operate as generously as the inhabitants of inland cities and towns in the maintenance of the Life-boat Service.

The Boat was received by Provost Shearer, who presented her to Captain Charles Malcolm, the Chairman of the Buckie Committee. After she had been dedicated by the Rev. John Greenlaw, Miss Gordon, of Cairnfield, named her the " K.B.M.," the initials of the three donors. Their full names are inscribed on a plate inside the Boat.