a wooden half-lifeboat plaque made from the wreckage of the Peterhead lifeboat Alexander Tulloch which was wrecked in 1914 (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer, 1973), is a well-known maker of matchstick models. For example, using 1,500 used matchsticks, he made a model of the City of Bradford HI. By eye he built a trawler—a much bigger model—using 8,500matchsticks. The man-hours added up to two years.

So Hull has a good chance of turning in a lifeboat of some kind in the years ahead. Mr Buchan, in fact, may even manage it in his new workshop in Bricknell Avenue!.