MELVYN HAYES and Val Meredoc, who were appearing in 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum' at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth, came over to RNLI headquarters at Poole on July 31 to draw the sixth national lottery (right). Supervising the draw were Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, and Cdr E. F.

Pritchard, appeals secretary. The winners were: £1,000: D. Lusher, Rosyth, Fife.

£500: M. Girvan, Corby, Northants.

£250: E. M. Parson, Newport, Gwent.

£25: D. G. Thomas-Noworthy, Hatfield, Herts; Mrs S. Heywood, Roxwell, Chelmsford; Miss E. B. Marshall, Grays, Essex; E. Savage, Dorchester, Dorset; Mr Powys, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides; Agnes Brownlie, Carluke, Lanarkshire; V. C.

Sainty, Bracknell, Berks; F. Morrison, Port of Ness, Isle of Lewis; Mrs P. M. E. Orr, East Grinstead, Sussex; MrsT. Hunt-Duke, Folkestone, Kent.

RNLI Funds have so far benefited by about £150,000 as a result of the lotteries, nearly £21,000 being raised by the sixth lottery. The seventh national lottery will be drawn on January 31, 1980.

A commemorative cover celebrating Ramsey lifeboat station's 150th anniversary is available price £1 plus lOp p. and p. from Inspector A. R.

Quirk, 33 Queens Drive West, Ramsey, Isle of Man.

* * * In the second part of the article 'Lifeboats of the World', published in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT, a photograph was shown of Valparaiso lifeboat, Chile. This lifeboat was wrongly described as an ex-RNLI 14m Watson. She is in fact an ex-RNLI 48ft 6in (14.8m) Ramsgate type lifeboat.

She was originally stationed at Walton and Frinton and was named EMED..