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The Life-Boat Service at the Festival of Britain

THE Life-boat Service is represented at the Festival of Britain by its latest life-boat, the Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-in hes Watson cabin life-boat built for the station at the Humber, to which she will go when the Festival closes, and named after the chairman of the Committee of Management.

She is in the Seaside Section, close'to the Rodney Landing Stage. In addi- tion there are models of life-boats in the Transport Section.

On board the Festival Ship Campania which is going round the coast, are the new 35-feet 6-iiu-hes Liverpool boat, B.H.M.H., built for Minehead, and photographs of life-boats in •action..