SPECIAL APPEALS Just before the AGM at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on May 21 (which will be reported fully in the Autumn issue), Mr Roy Bailhache, Chairman of the Jersey branch, presented a cheque for £100,000—the largest single cheque the RNLI has ever received—to the Chairman, Commander F. R. H. Swann, CBE, RNVR. It was the response to an appeal launched in Jersey and represents the cost of their new Jersey 44' Waveney lifeboat.

Other major district appeals have been making excellent progress. The Cornish appeal for the Fal mouth and Scnnen Cove lifeboats has reached its target of £50,000, and the appeal launched by Sir Alec Rose for a new Rother lifeboat to be called Hampshire Rose has already raised more than £14.000 towards a target of £50,000.

The Guernsey appeal to meet the cost of a new St Peter Port 52' Arun lifeboat has passed £55,000, and the Medway appeal has passed £4,000.

The Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund again made an outstanding contribution to the lifeboat service in 1973, providing no less than £46,000.

STOP PRESS Passage in company, Poolc to Plymouth: The six foreign and four of the British lifeboats going to the International Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth will rendezvous at Poole on Sunday, July 14. On Tuesday, July 16, they will sail in company from Poole toTorbay, and on to Plymouth on July 17. The lifeboats from overseas will represent France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

Race meeting at Goodwood: A race meeting in aid of the RNLI will be held at Goodwood on Saturday, September 14. Entrance tickets range from 50p to £3 and can be obtained in advance from Goodwood Race Course. £8,500 prize money has already been assured, but it is hoped that two more sponsors will come forward, each of whom would be prepared to donate a £1,000 prize for one of the two remaining races.

Jubilee Year Concert at Guildford Cathedral: An orchestral and organ concert will be held on Saturday, October 5. Admission programmes price £1.50, £1, 85p and 50p (unnumbered) from The Verger, Guildford Cathedral, SPCK, North Street, Guildford, or Mrs N. J. Streeter, Munstead Rough, Nr. Godalming, Surrey.

The Band of HM Royal Marines, Naval House Command, by permission of the Commander in Chief, will give a concert in the Borough Hall, Hartlepool, County Durham, on Wednesday, October 9.

Coffee morning at Chatsworth House: The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire have kindly given permission for a coffee morning in aid of the RNLI at Chatsworth House on Saturday, October 26; it will be organised by two Derbyshire branches, Derwent, and Matlock and Bakewell..