LADY MOTTISTONE named a new motor life-boat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 5th September. The new boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type de- scribed on page 194. She is the first motor life-boat to be built with Diesel instead of petrol engines, following experiments with another Watson cabin type, specially fitted with an 85-h.p.

Diesel engine, which for a time was stationed at Yarmouth. The new boat has two engines, of 40 h.p. each, and she carries enough fuel oil to be able to travel 237 miles at full speed, without refuelling, as compared with the 116 miles of the same type of life-boat with petrol engines. She has cost £8,000, and has been built out of legacies received from the late Mr. D. Altschul, of London, Miss H. Gartside, of Holm- firth, Yorkshire, and Mr. J. E. C.

Edmunds, of Newport, Isle of Wight.

She has replaced another Watson cabin motor life-boat of an earlier type.

Yarmouth has had a life-boat station since 1924. There have been 58 launches on service and 39 lives have been rescued.

Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a vice-president of the Institution, president of the Isle of Wight branch and ex-coxswain of the Brooke life- boat, presided, and there was a large audience.

The Hon. George Colville, deputy chairman of the Institution, presented the life-boat to the branch in the name of the donors and the Institution, and she was received by Major H. Mansford, O.B.E., chairman of the branch. The Rev. Stanley Woodin, M.A., rector of Yarmouth, conducted the service of dedication, assisted by the Rev. John Matthewman, and the singing was led by the choir of the Yarmouth Parish Church.

Lady Mottistone then named the life- boat S.G.E. These are the initials of the names chosen by the three donors, and the full names are inscribed inside the life-boat. A vote of thanks was proposed by Captain A. G. Cole, honorary secretary of the branch, and seconded by Mr. R. Acheson Webb, O.B.E., C.C..