THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, took place on 17th July, with Commo- dore Sir Richard Henry Williams- Bulkeley, Bt., K.C.B., R.N.R., Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey and a Vice- President of the Institution, presiding.

The new Boat is of the Watson type, 40 feet 6 inches by 11 feet 8 inches.

She is divided into six water-tight com- partments and has 160 air-cases. She is driven by a 50 h.p. engine, giving her a speed of over 1 knots, and she can travel 144 miles at full speed without refuelling. In rough weather she can take fifty people on board. She has been built out of legacies from the late Mrs.

Edith Harriett Scott, of Hayes Park, Middlesex, and the late Mr. Thomas Richards, of Llangadoch, Carmarthen- shire, and her engine has been provided out of a special Life-boat Fund raised in Northampton.

Mrs. Scott's legacy had been left to provide two Life-boats to be named George Staley and Ann Staley. Mr.

Richards also left his legacy to provide two Life-boats, each to be named Wade Richards. Neither legacy being sufficient for the purpose intended, permission was obtained to amalgamate them. The three names have been inscribed inside the boat and her name is G. W., the first initials of George Staley and Wade Richards. The engine bears a plate recording that it is the gift of the Northampton Life-boat Fund.

The Moelfre Station was established in 1830. It has a record since 1850 of 309 lives rescued from shipwreck; and two Gold, three Silver and seventeen Brouze Medals have been awarded for gallantry.

Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley pre- sented the boat to the Station, and recalled the splendid service of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, which it had replaced, to the ketch Excel in October, 1927, when the Institution awarded two Gold and twelve Bronze Medals in recognition of the exceptional gallantry shown by all on board the Life-boat.

The Boat was received by Captain R. R. Davies, Honorary Secretary of the Anglesey Branch, and was dedicated by the Venerable Archdeacon Evans, of Bangor, assisted by the Rev. John Parry, Rector of Llanallgo, the Rev.

R. R. Morris, of Moelfre, and the Rev.

R. R. Jones, of Llanallgo.

The Lady Magdalen Williams-Bulke- ley then named the boat in the following words : '' In the Name of Christ 1 name this boat G. W. May He who stilled the storm on the Sea of Galilee be also present in this boat in the hour of danger." A Vote of Thanks to Sir Richard and the Lady Magdalen Williams-Bulkeley was proposed by Colonel Lawrence Williams, Honorary Secretary of the Moelfre Station.

At the beginning of the Ceremony Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley presented the Certificates of Service which had been awarded to ex-Coxswain Thomas James and ex-Bowman Edward Owen, of Rhoscolyn, and also the Centenary Vellums, signed by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, awarded to the Anglesey Branch and the Moelfre Station.* * An article on the Centenary Vellums awarded during the present year will appear in the next issue of The Lifeboat..