THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now being built for Blyth, in Northumberland; and Mr. Winston Churchill, who is a vice-patron of the fund, has agreed to the fund's request that she shall be named after him.

Since the fund was started in 1866, it has given and endowed twenty-four life-boats (not including this new boat), and they have rescued over 2,000 lives.