Barmouth, Merionethshire.

The Institution stationed at Barmouth in 1939 a 32-feet surf motor life-boat, with Hotchkiss internal cone propellers. She is like the Poole motor life-boat described in the issue of The Life-boat for December, 1939, except that she has larger petrol tanks and can travel 90 miles at full speed without refuelling, instead of 44. She has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat.

The new boat has cost about £3,000 and has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. M. A. Arden, of Prestbury, Cheshire.

The naming ceremony was held on 8th August, 1939. Mr. T. W. Piggott, D.L., J.P., president of the branch, was in the chair, and several thousands of people were present. Those taking part in the ceremony arrived at the quay on board the old Barmouth pulling and sailing life-boat Jones Gibb.

Commander G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., the district inspector of life-boats, presented the life-boat to the branch on * These complete the accounts of naming ceremonies held December, 1039.

behalf of the donor and the Institution, and she was received by Mr. Piggott.

The Right Hon. Lord Harlech, P.C., G.C.M.G., Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire, presented the gold badge awarded to Mr. Piggott by the Institution and the life-boatman's statuette awarded to Miss Eirlys Morris.

The Archdeacon of Merioneth (the Venerable T. A. Williams, B.A.,) dedicated the life-boat, assisted by the Rev.

Canon R. Hughes Williams, M.A., rector of Barmouth, and the Rev.

James Jones. The singing at this service was led by the Barmouth Male Choir, accompanied by the Harlech Silver Prize Band.

Lady Harlech then named the lifeboat Lawrence Arden, Stockport, and the Barmouth May Queen (Miss Beti Roberts) presented a bouquet to Lady Harlech.

A vote of thanks to those who had taken part in the ceremony was proposed by Captain Vivian Lewis, M.C., district organising secretary, and in 1939, of which ten were published in The Life-boat for seconded by Mr. M. G. Roberts, J.P., chairman of the Barmouth Urban District Council.

Tobermory, Argyllshire.

After the naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat, Sir Arthur Rose, on the llth August, 1939, of which an account was given in the last issue of The Life-boat, the life-boat visited lona on the 26th August. There a special service was held, including the "blessing of a ship on going to sea" from a Gaelic prayer book of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland dated 1638, and the life-boat was presented with a small silver replica of the St.

John's Cross, which stands at the entrance to lona Cathedral. This silver cross has been hung in the cabin of the life-boat, beside a photograph of Sir Arthur Hose.

POSTPONED CEREMONIES.

Three naming ceremonies which had been arranged to take place early in September, 1939, two in Ireland and one in England, were postponed owing to the outbreak of war on 3rd September.

Poolbeg.

The Institution sent to Poolbeg in 1938 a motor life-boat specially built for that station to take the place of the pulling and sailing life-boat. This boat is 28 feet by 8 feet, and weighs 3j tons.

She is divided into eight water-tight compartments and is fitted with 29 air-cases. She has a single screw and is driven by a 20-h.p. engine in a watertight engine-room. She has a speed of 71 knots and carries enough petrol to be able to travel 40 miles at full speed without refuelling. She has a crew of 5 and can take 18 people on board in rough weather. She is intended only for work inside the estuary of the Liffey.

Ships in distress in the open sea would be succoured by the motor lifeboats at Howth just to the north of the estuary, or Dun Laoghaire just to the south.

The new boat has cost about £2,000.

She has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. Helen Blake, of Handcross, Sussex. Her name is to be Helen Blake.

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.

The Institution stationed at Rosslare Harbour in 1939 a motor life-boat of the 46-feet Watson cabin type.

The new boat has cost about £9,000.

She has been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Mabel Marion Thompson, of Bognor Regis, Sussex. Her name is to be Mabel Marion Thompson.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.

The Institution stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in 1939 a motor life-boat which is the first of a new type, called the Goileston cabin type. This type is similar to the 46-feet Watson cabin type, but she has been specially designed with shallower draught, to fit her for working over the sand banks of the east coast. She is 46 feet by 12 feet 9 inches, the same dimensions as the Watson cabin type, but while the Watson cabin has a draught of 35 i inches forward and 50 inches aft, the Gorleston type's draught is 33 inches forward and 44 inches aft.

On service, with crew and gear on board, she weighs nearly 21 tons, over half a ton more than the Watson cabin type. She is divided into 8 watertight compartments and is fitted with 191 air-cases. She has twin screws and is driven by two 40-h.p. Diesel engines. The engine-room is a watertight compartment, and each engine is itself water-tight, so that it could continue running even if the engine-room were flooded. The boat's speed is nearly 8| knots and she carries enough fuel to be able to travel 196 miles at full speed without refuelling. She carries a crew of 10, and in rough weather she can take 95 people on board.

She has a line-throwing gun, an electric searchlight, and transmitting and receiving radio telephony sets, and she is lighted throughout by electricity.

The new boat has cost about £9,000.

She has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. Louise Stephens, of Ewhurst, Surrey. Her name is to be Louise Stephens..