THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180 times, they have rescued 468 lives, and two of them have been wrecked, with loss of life. In 1938 the Caroline Parsons was capsized as she left a wreck. She righted herself at once and her crew got aboard her again, but five of the 23 rescued men were drowned. Just a year later the next boat, the John and Sarah Eliza Stych, was capsized in the open sea when on her way to a wreck. She, too, righted herself at once, but capsized a second and a third time, each time losing some of her crew, and in the end was washed ashore on the rocks with only one of the eight men alive.

The new boat is of the 35-feet 6 inches Liverpool type, with two 18 h.p.

engines. She has been built out of legacies from Miss Lilian Cockcroft, of London, Major George William Wilson, of London, Mr. Orlando Francis Child, -of Hereford, and Mr. Richard Barwiek Pol, of London.

The ceremony was held in brilliant weather. Marines from Plymouth formed a guard of honour and the St.

Ives Band accompanied the singing.

The boat was named by the Countess of Mount Edgcombe, with whom were the Earl of Mount Edgcombe, Major- General Stephen Lamplugh, C.B.E., and Mrs. Lamplugh, and the ceremony was arranged by Captain F. H. Hicks, the honorary secretary of the station, and the local committee.

Alderman J. Daniel, J.P., C.C., chairman of the branch, presided, and after Captain G. R. -Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., district inspector of life-boats, had described the boat, Captain Guy D. Fanshawe, R.N., a vice-president of the Institution, presented her to the branch on behalf of the donors and the Institution. The Mayor of St.

Ives, Councillor J. Cock, received her on behalf of the branch.

The Bishop of Truro, the Right Rev.

Joseph Wellington Hunkin, O.B.E., M.C., D.D., then dedicated the boat and the Countess of Mount Edgcombe named her Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child.

A vote of thanks was proposed by Captain N. A. Beechman, M.C., K.C., Member of Parliament for St. Ives, and seconded by Mr. P. Shurmer, Member of Parliament for the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham, who was on holiday at St. Ives. Thelife-boat wasthenlaunched..