In August the Institution opened a new station on the west coast of Ireland at Killybegs, in Donegal Bay, and stationed there one of its most powerful motor life-boats, a 5i-feet Barnett cabin boat with two 60 h.p. engines. She is the "Queen Victoria", built in 1929 and previously stationed at St. Peter Port, Guernsey. When the Channel Islands were occupied by the Germans in June 1940 she was at a building yard in England being overhauled, and the life-boat from the reserve fleet which was taking her place at St. Peter Port fell into German hands..