Three more motor lifeboats are now under construction on the Clyde—for Tobermory (a new station), Wick, and Selsey (Sussex), and will be completed in the first half of this year, They, too, are all of the Watson cabin type, 46ft. by 120. bin, weighing 20% tons. They will be divided into seven water-tight compartments and will be fitted with 142 air-cases. They will have twin-screws, driven by two 40 h.p. Diesel engines, giving them a speed of 8% knots, and they will carry enough fuel to have e range of 230 miles at full speed without refuelling.
They will be able to take 95 people on board in rough weather, will carry a line-throwing gun and an electric searchlight, and will be lighted throughout by.electrieity.—These boats cost £9,000 each. Before going to her station the Tobermory boat will Be ron view at the Scottish Empire. Exhibition in Glasgow next summer, I hope that I have said enough to show that this work of mechanization has been much more than a matter of finding the money and building the boats. I'hope it will be realized how much experience and ingenuity have gone into the naval architecture and engineering of the vessels, and how greatly the service of saving life 18 indebted to the two Glasgow men whose names ate commemorated in the Watson and Barnett lifeboats,
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