THE Institution has its own pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The pavilion has been built for the Institu- tion by Sir John Burnet, Tait & Larne, architects of the Exhibition.

The principal exhibit in this pavilion is a motor life-boat of the Watson cabin type, the type named after the late Mr.

G. L. Watson, of Glasgow, the Institu- tion's consulting naval architect from 1887 until his death in 1904. She is a modern development of the first of the Watson pulling and sailing life-boats which he designed immediately on his appointment. She is 46 feet by 12 feet 9 inches. On service, with crew and gear on board, she weighs 19f tons.

She is divided into seven water-tight compartments, and is fitted with 142 air-cases. She has twin screws, and is driven by two 40-h.p. Diesel engines.

The engine-room is a water-tight com- partment, and each engine is itself water-tight, so that it could continue running even if the engine-room were flooded. Her speed is 8J knots, and she carries enough fuel to be able to travel some 200 miles at full speed without refuelling. She carries a crew of eight, and in rough weather can take ninety-five people on board. She has a line-throwing gun and an electric searchlight, and is lighted throughout with electricity.

She has been built on the Clyde by Messrs. Alexander Robertson, of Sand- bank, and has been equipped by the Scottish firm, Coastal Radio of Edin- burgh, with their radio-telephony.

A Gift from Tobermory.

The boat has cost about £8,000 and has been built out of a gift from Miss Margaret Lithgow, of Glengorm Castle, Tobermory, and at Miss Lithgow's wish will have the name Sir Arthur Rose.

When the Exhibition closes the boat will go to the new station which the Institution is establishing at Tober- mory.

Six models show the development of the life-boat from the Original, built in 1789, to the self-righting pulling and sailing life-boats, of which the first was built in 1851, the Watson pulling and sailing life-boats (the model of the first of these boats stationed at Southport, Lancashire, in 1888 is in the Exhibi- tion), and so to the motor life-boat of to-day.

The Institution's medals awarded for gallantry and medals awarded to the Institution itself by foreign life-boat societies are also exhibited. Ten photo- graphs from different parts of the coast of England and Scotland show the life- boat service in action, and a chart shows the life-boat stations round Great Britain and Ireland.

" The Life-boat Service in Scotland." An illustrated book, The Life-boat Service in Scotland, is on sale at the pavilion. It has been specially pre- pared for the Exhibition, and has contri- butions by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, the Hon.

George Colville, deputy chairman, and the Duke of Montrose, chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and accounts of rescues of special gallantry on the Scottish coasts.

The new life-boat film, " Boats that Save Life," will be shown at the Scottish Pavilion, the United Kingdom Pavilion and other theatres in the Exhibition, and a photograph of the Portpatrick motor life-boat has been sent to be used in the photo-mural decoration of the Scottish Pavilion.

The arrangements for the life-boat pavilion have been made by a special subcommittee of members of the com- mittee of management of the Institu- tion, representatives of the Scottish Life-boat Council and the Glasgow branch, and officials of the Institution.

The Exhibition was opened by the King and Queen on 3rd May and will remain open until the end of October..