THE Duchess of Northumberland, C.B.E., a vice-patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the Alnwick Guild, named a new motor life-boat at North Sunderland on 5th September. The boat is of the 35 feet 6 inches light Liverpool type described on page 190. She has cost £3,500 and has been built out of legacies from the late Miss M. B.

Savage, of London, Miss A. Matthews, of Leeds, and Mr. A. Gardiner, of Craigavad, Co. Down. She has re- placed a pulling and sailing life-boat.

North Sunderland has had a life-boat station since 1827. Since 1850, its life-boats have been launched on service 128 times, and have rescued 215 lives.

The Duke of Northumberland, president of the Alnmouth and Boulmer and Alnwick branches, was in the chair. Seahouses was decorated for the occasion, and representatives of the Northumberland branches of the Institution and hundreds of people from different parts of Northumber- land took part in the ceremony. In the harbour were the motor life-boats from Holy Island and Boulmer.

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presented the life- boat to the branch on behalf of the donors and the Institution, and she was received by Mr. R. W. A. Marshall, chairman of the branch. The Duchess of Northumberland then presented to Mrs. Marshall, president of the North Sunderland Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the statuette of a life-boatman which had been awarded to her by the Institu- tion. A vote of thanks to the Duchess was proposed by Colonel the Hon.

Harold Robson, J.P., a member of the committee of management of the Institution and chairman of the Alnmouth and Boulmer branch, and seconded by Mr. Lewis B. Ross, J.P.

The Rev. Canon R. R. Mangin, M.A., the Venerable Archdeacon of Lindis- farne, dedicated the life-boat, and the singing at the dedication service was led by the combined choirs of the Church of England, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, accompanied by the Newbig in Colliery band.

The Duchess of Northumberland named the life-boat W.R.A. These are the initials of the names chosen by the three donors, and the full names are inscribed inside the life-boat. The life-boat was then launched..