Lord Mayor visits Exmouth In 1970 the 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat City of Birmingham was named at Exmouth. Civic links forged then were renewed on April 11 when, at the invitation of Charles Tate, chairman of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch, a party from Birmingham led by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Councillor and Mrs Joseph Bailey, visited Exmouth. Also among the visitors were Alderman Charles V.

Simpson, the ex-lord mayor in whose year of office the appeal for City of Birmingham raised £42,000, and Mrs Edwina Simpson who named the lifeboat.

Centenary appeal Weston-super-Mare lifeboat station will be celebrating its centenary in 1982, and to mark the occasion a Lifeboat Centenary Appeal has been launched to fund a new Atlantic 21.

Details are available from Mr T. V.

Clapp, 45 Farm Road, Weston-super- Mare, Avon, and all support will be much appreciated.

Service to MFV Concord Prints of a pen and ink sketch of the service of Southwold Atlantic 21lifeboat to MFV Concord (see page 185), matching the previous prints of the Humber lifeboat service to Revi, are available from Mr T. G. R. Stibbons, chairman of Spaldingand District branch, 4 Rainton Court, Spalding, Lincolnshire. Each print, price £1 including p and p, will be signed by Helmsman Roger Trigg and the artist, Trevor Parkin. Special terms available for branches and guilds.

Royal Waterman Tony Hobbs, chairman of Henleyon- Thames branch, has recently been appointed a Waterman to the Queen, an honour reflecting his work on all matters concerning the River Thames and for boating people in general.

D class gift Castlehouse Sports and Social Club, Baling, has raised £3,500 to fund a D class inflatable lifeboat. A cheque for that amount was presented to Bryan Tween, ADOS (North London), in January.

Funds from stamps For years, Mr and Mrs B. Smale have been collecting used postage stamps to raise fund for the RNLI - to such good effect that up to April 1980, when they were presented with a statuette in recognition of their work, they had raised more than £30,000.

Since then, amazingly, they have raised a further £17,000..