ings to the RNLI, his Christmas cards proving particularly popular (350,000 mantelpieces must have been the brighter for them last Christmas); Alan Jones, Secretary and Exhibition Organiser of National Boat Shows, who has consistently given valuable help to the Institution; J. P. Morris, a most active member of the Enthusiasts' Society who has given the RNLI many photographs and written a number of articles on lifeboats; and David Parker, who wrote the script and did much of the camera work for a film about the service sponsored by the House of Martell, and has also taken many photographs of lifeboats and presented them to the RNLI—the cover photograph for this issue is his, as are some of the pictures taken at the Boat Show.

To round off 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the theme for the central feature at the next Boat Show, in January 1975, is to be a lifeboat village, so Earls Court, for ten days after Christmas, will become the home of the RNLI—J.D..