A REMARKABLE feature of life-boat appeals during recent years has been the number of gifts for building motor life-boats for the Scottish coast received from ladies in Scotland. Since the beginning of 1928 nine such gifts have been received, amounting to £71,216.

Five of these gifts, amounting to £38,216, have come from Glasgow.

The first of them was from Mrs.

A. J, Fairlie, of Glasgow, a gift of £4,758, to be added to a legacy of £1,019, received in 1917 from Mrs.

Fairlie's mother, Lady Richmond, to provide the motor life-boat stationed at Troon, Ayrshire, in 1929.

Then came a gift from Mrs. Lawrence Glen, of Glasgow, who gave £4,500 to build the motor life-boat stationed at Girvan, Ayrshire, in 1931.

Three more gifts provided three life- boats which went to the coast in 1935.

These were a gift of £11,000 from Miss M. D. Rankin, of Glasgow, for the life- boat at Aith, in the Shetlands, a gift of £8,958 from Miss E. Sinclair, of Glasgow, who died in June of this year, for the life-boat at Portaskaig, Argyll- shire, and an anonymous gift of £7,000 from a Scottish lady, received through Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., the Institution's consulting naval architect, for the life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee.

In 1937 a motor life-boat was built for Port Patrick, Wigtownshire, out of a gift of £10,000 from Miss Paterson, of Paisley.

In the present year three more motor life-boats for the coast of Scotland have been under construction, all three the gifts of Scottish ladies. The first is a boat for the station which has just been established at Tobermory, Isle of Mull. This is the boat which has been at the Life-boat Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow. She "has been built out of a gift of £8,000 from Miss Margaret Lithgow, of Tobermory, who died in June of this year.A motor life-boat for Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, which has been laid down this year, will be built out of a gift of £9,000 just received from Mrs.

Park Barry, of Glasgow, and the larger of the two motor life-boats which are being built for Montrose, Angus, is E rovided out of an anonymous gift of 8,000, from two Scottish ladies, received, like the gift for the Broughty Ferry life-boat, through Mr. J. R.

Barnett.

These are the nine gifts amounting to £71,216. In addition three life-boats have been provided during the same time, and two other life-boats partly provided, out of legacies from Scottish ladies. The motor life-boat stationed at Arbroath, Angus, in 1932 was built out of a legacy of £3,332 from the late Misses I. and E. Mudie, of Dundee.

The motor life-boat stationed at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, in 1936 was provided put of a legacy of £10,000 from the late Mrs. M. H. Dawson, of Bridge of Allan. The motor life-boat stationed at St. Abbs, Berwickshire, in 1936 was provided out of a legacy of £803 from the late Mrs. Isabella Forrest, of Glasgow, and _ a gift of £2,000 from the executors of the late Miss Annie Ronald, of Paisley.

The motor life-boat stationed at Port Patrick, Wigtownshire, in 1929, and since replaced by another boat, was in part provided out of a legacy of £4,139 from the late Mrs. A. Colquhoun, of Glasgow, and the motor life-boat stationed at St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1933, the life-boat which was wrecked on a gallant service early this year, was in part provided out of a legacy of £1,000 from the late Miss Caroline Parsons, of Edinburgh.

These legacies, all received since the beginning of 1928, amount to £21,174, so that the total of special gifts and legacies.for the provision of life-boats received from Scottish ladies during the past eleven years is £92,392..