Former coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat, Mr Jonas Oxley, who has helped to save hundreds of lives at sea, is putting brush to canvas to record the work of the lifeboatmen. Early this year he completed a painting of Walton's first lifeboat, Honourable Artillery (1884), being launched from the beach near the old coastguard station.

by courtesy of Tony Ray, East Anglian Daily Times.