THE Inaugural Ceremony of the New Ramsey Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Claude Hill, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Pre- sident of the Branch, presented the Life-boat to the Branch, and Lady Hill named her.

The new Boat is of the self-righting type, 35 feet 6 inches long, with a 35-h.p. engine, which has already been described. She is a gift to the Institu- tion from Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the Liverpool shipowner. In 1888 Sir Heath Harrison gave a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat to the Institution, which was named Mary Adelaide Har- rison, after his wife, and was stationed at Campbeltown, Argyllshire. Now, more than forty years later, Sir Heath Harrison, who has been married nearly fifty years, has presented this second boat, which has also been named after his wife, Lady Harrison.

The Ramsey Life-boat Station was established in 1829 by Sir William Hillary, Bt., founder of the Institution.

It has the fine record of 426 lives rescued from shipwreck.

In presenting the Boat Sir Claude Hill recalled the fact that the Isle of Man had the distinction of being the birth- place of the Institution and spoke of the splendid record of the Island's Life- boats—845 lives rescued from ship- wreck since 1850.

The boat was accepted, on behalf of the Branch by the Chairman, the Rev.

M. W. Harrison, M.A., and dedicated by the Bishop of Sodor and Man (the Right Rev. W. Stanton-Jones) who was assisted in the religious ceremony by the Rev. H. W. Young, Vicar of St.

Olaves, and the Rev. W. Towers Garrett, of the Free Churches. Mrs. Groves, the President of the Ramsey Ladies' Life- boat Guild, then invited Lady Hill to name the Life-boat, and Lady Hill named her Lady Harrison. A Vote of Thanks to Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., and to Lady Hill was proposed by Mr.

A. 0. Caine, C.I.C., J.P., and seconded by Brigadier-General W. S. Swabey, C.B., the District Organizing Secretary.

The Ceremony took place in the presence of a large audience, among those present being Mr. S. R. Preston- Hillary, an Honorary Vice-President of the Institution, and Dr. C. W. Preston- Hillary, a Life-Governor of the Institu- tion and Deputy Chairman of the Nottingham Branch, descendants of Sir William Hillary. There were also present six ex-Life-boatmen of the Ramsey Station, whose service totalled to 254 years.

The singing was led by the massed choirs of St. Paul's Church, St. Olave's Church, Waterloo Road Wesleyan Church, Trinity Presbyterian Church and the Primitive Methodist Church..