ARBROATH H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Arbroath life-boat The Duke of Montrose at a ceremony held at the life-boat station in Arbroath harbour on the 21st of May, 1958. Provost D. A. Gardner, chairman of the Arbroath branch, took the chair, and Commander T. G.

Michelmore, Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, described the new boat, which is one of the 42-feet Watson type. Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, handed over the life-boat to the branch, Mr.

David Chapel, honorary secretary of the branch, accepting her.

A vote of thanks to the Duchess of Kent was proposed by the Earl of Airlie, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Angus, and a vote of thanks to the chairman and others by Lord Saltoun, chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council. The Rev. T. Gemmell Campbell, Minister of the parish of Arbroath, dedicated the life-boat. Music was provided by the Royal Marine band of the R.N. Air Station at Bramcote and by the Arbroath instrumental band, and the singing was led by the Arbroath combined choir.

On the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay capsized with the loss of seven members of her crew. She was replaced temporarily by a life-boat from the reserve fleet and then by the new life-boat The Duke of Montrose. On the occasion of the naming ceremony Master Tommy Adams, son of the late Bowman Thomas Adams, who lost his life in the disaster in 1953, presented a bouquet to the Duchess of Kent.

VALENTIA The new Valentia life-boat was named Rowland Watts by Mrs. O'Kelly, wife of the President of Ireland, at a ceremony held at Valentia Island on the 29th of May, 1958. The Very Rev. T.

O'Sullivan, chairman of the branch, took the chair and Lieut.-Commander H. H. Harvey, Irish District Inspector, described the boat, which is one of the 52-feet Barnett class.

Mr. F. Watts, nephew of the late Mr.

Rowland Watts, from whose legacy the life-boat was provided, presented the boat to the Institution. Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, accepted the life-boat and handed her over to the branch, Mr.

Kieran O'Driscoll, honorary secretary of the branch, accepting her. The Bishop of Kerry, the Most Rev. Denis Moynihan, blessed the life-boat, and after a vote of thanks proposed by Colonel R. J. Uniacke and seconded by the Rector of Valentia, the Rev.

Canon S. F. Howe, Mrs. O'Kelly named her. Music was by the St.

Joseph's School band, Tralee, and the Valentia parish choir led the singing.

In naming the boat Mrs. O'Kelly said : " She is as fine a craft as money, ingenuity, craftsmanship and long tradition in the development of life-boat construction can produce. We also know that she is in the very best of hands." WEYMOUTH The new life-boat for Weymouth was provided out of a legacy from the late Dr. Frank Spiller Locke of Tunbridge Wells, and at a ceremony held on the 14th of June, 1958, his widow presented the life-boat to the Institution and his great-niece, Miss Helen Harries, named her Frank Spiller Locke.

Mr. J. E. Gerard-Pearse, chairman of the Weymouth branch, took the chair and Lieut.-Commander W. L. G.

Dutton, Western District Inspector, described the boat, which is one of the 52-feet Barnett class. Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood, a member of the Committee of Management, accepted the life-boat and handed her over to the branch, Mr.

Kenneth H. Mooring Aldridge, honorary secretary of the branch, accepting her. The Archdeacon of Sherborne, the Ven. J. C. Chute, dedicated the lifeboat, assisted by the Vicar of Holy Trinity, Weymouth, the Rev. P. S.

Sprent, and the Superintendent Minister of Weymouth Methodist Church, the Rev. J. Charlton-Blackburn.

A vote of thanks was proposed by the Captain-in-Charge, H.M. Naval Base, Portland, Captain A. F. P. Lewis, R.N., and seconded by Lieut.-Colonel Sir Rupert Hay. Music was by the Rhine Staff Band of the Royal Tank Regiment..