Lifeboats on station are usually solitary craft, but every now and again circumstances brings a group of them together. On the night of June 4 and 5, five lifeboats gathered in Brixham Harbour. Torbay's own Arun, Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), was preparing to go for survey and her relief, the Arun Sir Max Aitken, had arrived to replace her temporarily on station; the new Arun Robert Edgar had come for the night while on trials; the 46ft 9in Watson North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) had called in on passage from Angle to Poole; and Torbay's 18ft din McLachlan was, of course, on station. A few days later the photograph below was taken of new and old lifeboats at Poole depot: (I. to r.) Robert Edgar, back at Poole before going to her station, Si Mary's, Scilly Islands; Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, on trials after survey; North Foreland, arrived at Poole ready to be hauled out; three old lifeboats waiting to be sold out of the service, the 46ft Watsons The Good Hope and Jessie Lumb and the 42ft Beach lifeboat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald; and the 41ft Watson Susan Ashley waiting to be taken by road to the National Lifeboat Museum at Bristol. There was still another lifeboat, a McLachlan, on the quay but out of sight..