As recorded in The Life-boat for last September, the Honorary Secretary of the Cobham (Surrey) Branch, made a rug in the shape and colours of the Institution's flag for an official of the Sudan Government Dockyard at Khartoum, giving the profits to the Institution. The official wrote how pleased he was to see this reference to his rug, and added that it was in " the engineer's cabin on the steamer running the petrol service on the White Nile, and has over 4.000 miles of African river travel to its credit already.".