Kits and pieces Sir - I would like to point out to Mr C. J.

Richardson (Your Letters, Spring 1990 issue) that there are several lifeboat models on the market.

Two models are currently available as complete kits and a number of manufacturers of glassfibre hulls also include a lifeboat in their range. The information I have gathered is as follows: Atlantic 21 - 1/12 scale kit (Lesro); Waveney - 1/20 scale kit (Billings, conversion of US Coast Guard cutter). If these cannot be ordered through your local model shop a look through one of the specialist magazines will give a shop where it can be ordered by post.

Plans only: Rother (1/16 scale), Atlantic 21 (1/8), Liverpool (1/16), Barnett (1/16) and Tyne (1/20) from Argus Specialist Publications, Argus House, Boundary Way, Hemel Hemstead, Herts. A styrene Tyne hull is also available from the above.

Plans are also usually available from the Poole HQ, and appropriate charges are made for plans from this source.

Glassfibre hulls are available from a number of manufacturers and I know of Arun (hull and deck), Brede, and Waveney with the scale varying from manufacturer to manufacturer.

I hope that this information is of use to other readers, and if anyone would like any further information I can be contacted at the address below.

Dave Wilson 99 Partridge Close Thornhill, Dewsbury West Yorkshire WF12 OHS Agnes Cross at Dover Sir - You kindly published my letter about Agnes Cross in the Summer 1989 issue of The Lifeboat, which generated some interest and brought me a number of letters.

One was from Mr Patrick Donovan of St Margaret's Bay and we have since kept in frequent contact. He tells me that his painting of Agnes Cross picking up soldiers from small boats off Dover during the Dunkirk period is to hang in the Dunkirk exhibition at Dover.

I have the official list in front of me and from 31 May to 18 June Agnes Cross picked up from small craft 60 English, French and Belgian soldiers - some wounded, some exhausted. The final service before the Dover station closed was the rescue of seven men from a divebombed coaster in convoy off Dover.

Sid J. Hills BEM Retired Staff Coxswain Cowes Model register Sir -1 am compiling a list of lifeboat modelers who would like to display their models at RNLI fund raising events around the south, covering an area from Eastbourne to Poole. The idea is to display working models (radio control), but static ones would be welcome.

I would like to let readers of THE LIFEBOAT know that we are here and willing to help out at events, and also that if there are any modelers out there who would like to join us they would be welcome.

The only things which we require at events are a few tables and some water.

We don't mind salt water and will sail in the sea.

Tony Oliff 2 Eldei field Close Emsworth, Hants Changing Times Sir -1 came across the enclosed advertisement in the Ward Lock Red Guide to the Broads for 1933/ 1934.

Your present fund raisers might like to see the target so clearly quantified. I suppose it is possible that some of the more senior fund raisers might have been helping at that date.

Frank Sanders Guildford, Surrey Where are you Mr Commodore? Sir -1 am a member of the Rochester Cruising Club and we have decided to try to trace our ex-commodores to compile a potted history and, where possible, obtain a photograph for our archives.

I have been assigned to 'find' two such commodores and it crossed my mind that, albeit they may be elderly now, they would probably be members or past members of the RNLI as nearly all our present club members are.

So, a shot in the dark, and even then I can't give you any information except their names and the years they were commodores, apart from assuming they may live in Kent.

The two I am trying to trace are J.

Roberts (Commodore 1956-58) and A.

Rogers (Commodore 1959-60).

I am also trying to trace previous commodores going back to the 1930's, although I do not have any names.

Miss J Adams Riverside, College Avenue, Maidstone, Kent ME15 6YJ.