The new Sheerness, Isle ofSheppey, 44' Waveney lifeboat Helen Turnbull was named on May 18 by Mrs R. D. Leigh-Pemberton, wife of the vice Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

A legacy from the estate of James Bissell Turnbull, together with donations from Medway Lions Club and Medway lifeboat appeal, defrayed the cost of this lifeboat. Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, KBE, CB, a vice-president of the RNLI, delivered the boat to the care of Sheerness branch, on whose behalf she was accepted by honorary secretary Captain David Gibbons. photograph by courtesy of J. P. Morris.