THE motor life-boat stationed at Flam- borough last year was named on 28th August.

The Flamborough station was estab- lished in 1871 and has always had two life-boats, is of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet. On service, with crew and gear on board, she weighs 7 tons. She is divided into six water-tight compartments, and is fitted with 115 air-cases. If a sea breaks on board she can free herself in twelve seconds. She has one screw, driven by a 35 h.p. engine, in a water-tight compartment. The engine itself is water-tight, so that it could continue running even if the engine-room were flooded. Her speed is 7j knots, and she carries enough petrol to be able to travel 115 miles without refuelling.

She carries a crew of seven, and can take thirty people on board in rough weather.

She has been built out of a legacy received in 1930 from the late Mr. E.

Whitley, of St. Helier, in the Channel Islands. The legacy was left to provide a life-boat to be stationed, if possible, near Flamborough Head, where Mr.

Whitley's father lost his life.

It has been necessary to reconstruct the boat-house and slipway to make them suitable for the motor life-boat, and the cost of this has been borne, in part, by a legacy received last year from the late Lady (Edith Mary Burke) Powell, of London. This legacy was left to provide some piece of life-boat equipment, if possible at a station near Whitby, in memory of Lady Powell's life-boats. Altogether it has had seven, including the two present boats, and they have rescued 183 lives.

The new motor life-boat, which replaces one of the pulling and sailing brother, Charles Fitzgerald Wood, who was drowned at Whitby on 31st August, 1869.

The Right Hon. Lord Deramore, T.D., J.P., Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, performed the naming ceremony. Dr. R. C. Field, chairman of the branch, presided; the Institution was represented by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., its chairman; and the religious ceremony was conducted by the Rev. E. C. Peters, vicar of Flamborough, and the Rev. W. J.

Bush and the Rev. G. P. Maynard of the Methodist Church.

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Hull attended the ceremony and there were over 2,000 people present, among them parties from the Ladies' Life-boat Guilds at Beverley, Bradford, Bridling- ton, Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough and Withernsea.

The life-boat was presented to the branch by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and received by Dr. R. C. Field. The Vicar of Flamborough then dedicated her and Lord Deramore named her Elizabeth and Albina Whitley and unveiled a tablet on the boat-house recording Lady Powell's gift. A vote of thanks to Lord Deramore and the speakers was proposed by Mr. T. W.

Woodcock, J.P., and seconded by Mr.

A. R. Burton, members of the com- mittee of the Flamborough branch..