IN 1949 the Leeds branch of the Institution launched a special appeal for £10,000 to provide a life-boat to be named The City of Leeds. The appeal was under the patronage of the late Earl of Harewood, who contributed generously to it, and was signed by the Mayor of Leeds and Councillor A. R. Bretherick, chairman of the Leeds branch. This appeal raised £9,948 6s.

9d., and out of it the new life-boat for Redcar has been built. She is a 35-feet 6-inches self-righting life-boat and is the seventh to be stationed at Redcar.

The naming ceremony was held on the 18th August, 1951, and H.R.H.

the Princess Royal (Mary, Countess of Harewood) and the Archbishop of York (the Right Hon. and Most Rev.

C. F. Garbett, P.C., D.D.), took part in it. The Mayor of Redcar (Alderman T. A. Dougall, J.P.) presided, and Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats, described the boat. The Lord Mayor of Leeds (Lieut-Colonel F. Eric Tetley, D.S.O., T.D.) presented her to the Institution on behalf of the City of Leeds, and Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.R.D., P.C., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the Institution, received her and handed her over to Redcar, on whose behalf she was accepted by Mr. E. Graham Tyerman, chairman of the Redcar branch. The Archbishop of York dedicated the life- boat. H.R.H. the Princess Royal then named her The City of Leeds. A vote of thanks to the Princess Royal was proposed by Councillor A. R.

Bretherick, chairman of the Leeds branch, and seconded by Colonel A. D.

Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., secretary of the Institution..