The National Lifeboat Museum at Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol, is being opened at weekends this summer with a temporary exhibition occupying a quarter of the available area.

Among the exhibits are a Weyburn engine, an Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat and (r) a former 'Blue Peter' D class inflatable lifeboat. Visitors will be able to go down to the workshop where restoration work has already begun on BASF, a 45ft Watson cabin motor lifeboat built in 1924; also in the workshop are Lizzie Porter, an old pulling and sailing lifeboat, and a horse drawn launching carriage. The museum will be manned by volunteers and it is hoped to open from 11 to 5 every summer Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free hut there are boxes for donations for the museum. Over the spring hank holiday weekend, almost 3,000 people visited the exhibition and £240 was taken in donations. The steps, right, lead up to the RNLI's'South West District office. photograph by courtesy of the National Lifeboat Museum.