Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane stating that the cost of the boat was defrayed by a gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane in .

memory of his father and mother, (top right) Early stages in the building of the new Padstow life-boat station and slipway, (right) Coxswain Gordon Elliott looking at the slate plaque on the cliff above the station recording the planned unveiling by the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, who, however, had to hand over to her son, the Duke of Kent, at the last minute, (below) Padstow's 48-foot 6-inch Oakley self righting life-boat photographed from the air.

by courtesy of Ministry of Defence and E. Thomas &.