THE first life-boat of the Oakley class was named J. G. Graves of Sheffield at a ceremony at the Scarborough lifeboathouse on the 11th of June, 1959.

The life-boat was a gift of the J. G. Graves Charitable Trust, and Mrs. R. J. Drummond-Jackson, daughter of the founder of the trust and herself one of the trustees, presented the boat to the Institution. Admiral Sir William Slayter, a member of the Committee of Management, accepted the life-boat and handed her over to the branch, Mr. D. B.

Atkinson, honorary secretary of the branch, accepting her. The Mayor of Scarborough, Councillor J. A. Kennedy, opened the proceedings, and the Vicar of Scarborough, the Rev. Canon D. Oxby Parker, assisted by the President of the Scarborough Free Church Council, the Rev. R. B. Hyde, dedicated the life-boat.

Commander L. F. Hill, the Central District Inspector, described the boat, and after a vote of thanks had been proposed by Captain J. E. Cooper, chairman of the branch and seconded by Mrs. E. C. Nicholson, chairman of the Scarborough ladies' life-boat guild, Lady Georgiana Starkey named the boat. The singing was led by the Palsgrave County Modern School choir conducted by Miss Miriam Dowson.