THE 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boat now being built for New Brighton will be the most powerful Life-boat in the world, actually the largest is the new Dutch Motor Life-boat, the Brandaris, which was sent to her Station at Terschelling during last March. She there replaces the original Brandaris, whose tragic loss with all her crew on 23rd October, 1921, was described in The Life-Boat for February, 1922. The new Brandaris is 60 feet 2 inches long, with a beam of 15 feet 7 inches, and a draught of 7 feet 8 inches. The Barnett twin-screw, on the other hand, will be 60 feet long, with a beam of 15 feet and a draught of 4 feet 6 inches. The Brandaris has three cabins, while the Barnett twin-screw will have two, and is fitted with two single-cylinder 45 h.p. Kromhaut engines of the semi-Diesel type, while the Barnett twin-screw will have two six-cylinder engines of 90 h.p. each. The two boats are radically different, in that the Brandaris is built of iron, and has heavy crude- oil motors, while the Barnett twin-screw, like the institution's other Life- boats, is of wood, with light petrol motors. One feature of the Barnett boat is borrowed from the original Brandaris, the net stretched amidships, for people to jump into from the wrecked ship.