Four naming ceremonies of motor life-boats took place in the summer of 1947 at Cadgwith, Holy Island, Pwllheli and The Mumbles.

Cadgwith The Cadgwith life-boat is of the 35-feet 6-inches, light, self-righting type, weighing under seven tons, for launching off the open beach, and has been built out of a gift of £5,000 from the Girl Guides of the Empire, subscribed during Empire Week in 1940.

The boat was just completed in April, 1940, when the call came for boats to go to Dunkirk to help in bringing off the British Expeditionary Force, and she was sent straight from the building yard in Essex. She returned to the building yard for repairs and was stationed at Cadgwith in 1941. When the Girl Guides Association heard that their gift was to be used for this boat they asked that her name should be Guide of Dunkirk.

The naming ceremony was held on the 14th of June and the Rev. G. Birkett Roberts, L.Ph., a former honorary secretary of the station, presided.

Mrs. Michael Rogers, the County Commissioner of Girl Guides for Cornwall, presented the life-boat to the Institution on behalf of the Girl Guides Association, and also unveiled a plaque recording the gift and the boat's share in the evacuation from Dunkirk on the doors of the boathouse. The boat was received by Sir Arthur Reed, J.P., a member of the Committee of Management, and president of the Exeter branch. He in turn presented her to Mr. S. F. Watson, the honorary secretary of the station. The Bishop of Truro (Dr. J. W. Hunkin, O.B.E., M.C., D.D.), assisted by the Rector of St.

Grade with St. Ruan Minor (the Rev.

G. A. Harper), dedicated the boat, and Nancy, Lady Vivian, O.B,E., County President of Girl Guides, named her Guide of Dunkirk. A vote of thanks to those taking part was proposed by Admiral E. L. S. King, C.B., M.V.O., and seconded b/ the Rev.

R. H. Luke, the Methodist Minister at Mullion.

Holy Island The Holy Island life-boat station is one of the oldest on our coasts. Itwas established in 1802. It has had altogether ten life-boats, and its first motor life-boat went to the station in 192-5, a life-boat of the 45-feet Watson cabin type. This boat was replaced in 1946 with a 46-feet lifeboat, of the same type. She has been built out of a legacy from Lady Struthers, of London, who for many years was an active member of the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

The naming ceremony was held on the 25th of June, Major-General F. L. M.

Grossman, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., R.A., presiding. Captain E. W. Swan, C.B.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R., a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, presented the life-boat to the branch on behalf of the donor and the Institution. She was received from him by Mr. James Dawson, honorary secretary of the Holy Island Branch, and Lady Francis Osborne, president of the Berwick-on-Tweed Branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild and a life-governor of the Institution, named the boat Gertrude. A vote of thanks to those taking part was proposed by Captain W. J. Oliver, M.C., organiser secretary for the North-East of England.

Pwllheli A new motor life-boat went to the Pwllheli station in 1943. She is a 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat, and is the twenty-ninth to be given to the Institution by Manchester and District.

The naming ceremony was held on the 5th of September, and Captain R. E.

Thomas, chairman of the Pwllheli branch, presided. Mr. C. E. Fielding, deputy-chairman of the Manchester and District Branch, presented the life-boat to Pwllheli. and she was received by the Mayor, 'Alderman G.

Cornelius Roberts, J.P. The Bishop of Bangor (the Right Rev. David Edwards- Davies, M.A.), dedicated the life-boat, assisted by the Rev. D. E. Thomas, B.A., and the Rev. Roberts-Jones, D.D.

Councillor Lady Robinson, J.P., honorary secretary of the Manchester and District Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and president of the Stretford branch, then named the boat Manchester and Salford XXIX. A vote of thanks to those taking part in the ceremony was proposed by Mrs. W. H. Wynne Finch, vice-president of the South Caernarvonshire Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and seconded by Mrs. K. M. Robyns Owen, B.A., honorary secretary of the South Caernarvonshire Ladies' Life-boat Guild. After the.ceremony Mr. W. E.

Butlin, M.B.E., entertained some forty of the guests to lunch at his Pwllheli Holiday Camp.

The Mumble* A new life-boat -for The Mumbles.

Glamorganshire, was laid down in 1942, but her building was greatly delayed by the war. In April, 1947, when the life-boat stationed at The Mumbles was wrecked, with the loss of all her crew, the new boat was almost complete, and she went to her station in July. She is a 46-feet 9-inches Watson cabin life-boat, and is a gift to the Institution from its Manchester and District Branch. Her name was to have been Manchester and District XXX, but after the wreck of the old boat it was decided to include in the new boat's name the name of William Gammon, the coxswain who had lost his life.

The naming ceremony was held on the 20th of September, and was broadcast by the B.B.C. in its Home Service programme.

Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., honorary secretary of the Manchester and District Branch, presented the lifeboat to the Institution on behalf of the branch, and she was received by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management. He in turn presented her to the station.

She was received by the Venerable Archdeacon Harold S. Williams (Archdeacon of Gower, and chairman of The Mumbles Station), and Admiral Heneage Vivian, C.B., M.V.O., vicechairman of the committee of The Mumbles Station, thanked the Institution on its behalf. The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon (the Right Reverend Edward Williamson, D.D.), dedicated the life-boat, assisted by the Venerable Archdeacon Harold S. Williams, the Rev. W. D. G. Wilkinson, M.A. (Vicar of Oystermouth), and the Rev. G.

Gwynfa Thomas. Mrs. Harold S.

Williams named the boat William Gammon-—Manchester and District XXX..