GIFTS or bequests for any purposes are always most gratefully received by the Committee of Management. The most acceptable and most generous of all is a gift or bequest for general purposes, which leaves the Committee free to apply it in any way which they, with full knowledge of all the requirements of the Life-boat Service, consider will be of most value.

At the same time they recognize that many may desire, by their gift to this permanent work of humanity, to keep their own names or the names of their friends "freshly remembered." To meet this wish the following table of gifts has been prepared :— A Life-boat can be given the name chosen by the donor, and in the other cases a commemorative tablet is affixed to the gift.

Type of Boat.

Approximate COM of Boat and Equipment.

Estimated Annual Upkeep.

for IS Year, or for the Life of the Boat.

Cost of Boat and Replacement for t«r.

costs 16,000 Motor Life-boat .

12,000 8,500 8,000 8,000 (£0 ft. Barnelt Twin Screw) Motor Life-boat .

(SO ft. Barnett Twin Screw) Motor Life-boat .

(Walton Type) Motor life-boat .

(Norfolk and Suffolk Type) Motor Life-boat .

(Self-righting Type) Concrete Slipway .

Motor Life-boat House Motor Life-boat Engine Motor Caterpillar Tractor .

Winch and Engine....

Life-boat Carriage Set of Tipping Plates for Carriage Wheels (for passing over sand and mud) Power-driven Capstan for Motor Life-boats (for hauling on ropes and heaving in anchor) Line-throwing Gun Compass .....

Steering Wheel ....

Mercurial Barometer .

1,000 1,000 750 750 750 £6,000 £1,800 £1,600 £950 £750 £600 £220 £80 £15 £15 £15 £12 11,200 11,200 8,500 8,500 8,500 36,000 24,750 19,000 18,000 18,000 to £10,000 to construct.

„ £3,000 LIFE-BOAT HOUSE, 22, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON, W.C. 2.

GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A.

Secretary of the Institution.