THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.

The Calendar.

The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New Brighton Motor Life-boat on her way to the French steamer Emile Delmas, from which she rescued the whole crew of twenty-four men, in a very heavy N.N.W. gale with gusts at nearly 100 miles an hour. This was the finest service of 1928, the Coxswain being awarded the Silver Medal and each of the eight members of the crew the Bronze Medal. The picture is the property of Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., the Consulting Naval Archi- tect of the Institution and the designer of the Barnett type of Motor Life-boat, the first of which type was the New Brighton Life-boat shown in the picture.

The picture is reproduced by Mr.

Barnett's kind permission.

The calendar is 11£ inches long by 9 inches wide, and can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity, post free, Is. each, or 10s. a dozen, this price including an envelope with each calendar.

It weighs, in the envelope, just under 4 ounces, so that it can be sent through the post, with the envelope open, for Id.

The Christmas Card.

The Christmas Card is a four-page card with a Life-boatman's head on the front and the Institution's crest and Christmas and New Year greetings inside. It is a vellum card, printed in sepia.

As before, the calendar has the record of lives saved printed on the front, and other particulars on the back. The card has no printing on it except the greetings. It can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity. The price is 2d. each, including an envelope.1 Those who wish to order calendars or cards should apply to the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, Life-boat House, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, and should enclose with their order a postal order or stamps..