The Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the painting on this page.

The original painting was by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., and shows the rescue by the Longhope (Orkneys) life- boat of the crew of 14 of the trawler Strathcoe of Aberdeen on the 4th Febru- ary, 1959. A full account of this service appeared in the June 1959 number of the Life-boat on page 222. For the ser- vice Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick was awarded the silver medal for gallantry.

The card will be of four pages, with the picture on page one, a description of the painting on page two and greetings on page three. The price of the card, with the envelope, will be 9d. Name and address can be printed in, if not fewer than twenty-five are ordered, at an added cost of 15s. for 25 up to 50, 17s. 6d. for 51 to 100; 25s. for 101 to 200. The latest orders for overprinting must reach Life-Boat House by the 11th December, 1963.

Supporters of the Institution living in the Irish Republic are asked to order Christmas cards directly from the Dublin office, 32 South Frederick Street. Dublin, C.2.

The pocket calendar will have on the front a photograph showing the Fraser- burgh life-boat entering a harbour. It can be obtained in dozens, the price being 2s. per dozen..