The Institution has received gifts of chocolate from Messrs. Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree, and biscuits from Messrs. Huntley and Palmers, McVitie and Price and Peek Frean as emergency rations for its life-boats. By permission of the Ministry of Food, these firms have continued to keep the life-boats supplied with these rations, as they did for many years before the war..