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Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the hundredth anniversary of the rescue by Grace Darling and her father William Darling, of the Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the nine survivors of the Dundee steamer Forfarshire. The Institution has there- fore chosen for its Christmas card this year, and its calendar for 1938, the painting of the rescue, by Thomas Musgrove Joy, which hangs in the Art Gallery in Dundee. The painting is the property of the Fraternity of Masters and Seamen in Dundee, and has been reproduced by their kind permission. The reproduction on both card and calendar will be in colours.

The card will be an eight-page card with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside; and inside, particulars of the painting and Christmas and New Year greetings. The price will be 4d.

each, with envelope. If twenty-five or more are ordered, name and address can be printed under the greetings.

The price with name and address printed will be 6d. each for quantities from twenty-five to fifty. If fifty or more are ordered, no charge will be made for printing the name and address.

Owing to the customs duties, it will not be possible to print in names and addresses for the Irish Free State.

As in previous years, the calendar will have the record of lives saved printed on the front and other particulars on the back.

It will be 11 inches long by 9 inches wide, and can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity, post free, Is. each, or 105. a dozen, this price including an envelope with each calen- dar. It will weigh, in the envelope, just under four ounces, so that it can be sent through the post, with the envelope open, for Id.

Those who wish to order calendars and cards can do so at once. The cards are ready and the calendars will be ready early in November.

Orders should be sent to the Sec- retary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, and postal orders or stamps enclosed..