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Enclosed cheque/postal order for TOTAL £ Name: • Every cup counts Address: The Warnford Tea Trading Company Limited THE Royal National Lifeboat LIFEBOAT Institution Spring 1987 Contents RNLI News 110 Volume L Lifeboat Services . 113 Number 499 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Focus on the Hon. Secretaries by Ray Kipling . 120 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Electronic Eyes and Ears Reviewed by Cdr Ken Wollan 123 w People and Places 126 BUHtAU W CMCUUATIOW Editor: NORMAN HICKS Letters 128 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 Books 129 1HZ (Telephone Poole (0202) 671133). Telex: 41328. London Offices: Ceremonies... 130 Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW (Telephone 01-928 4236). Shoreline/Storm Force 131 Advertisement Manager: COLIN PEGLEY Jackson-Rud..d. &_, Associates. Oldebourne Past and Present 13,,3, House. 46-47 Chancery Lane. London WC2A 1JB (Telephone 01-405 3611/2 and 405 2860). Tht Fund Raisers * 134 Printers: The Friary Press, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset. Lifeboat Services. August. September and October. 1986 139 Subscription: A year's subscription of of April. News items for the Autumn four issues costs £3.(X). including post- issue should be sent in by the end of age, but those who are entitled to July. COVER PICTURE receive THE LIFEBOAT free of charge will Th? 4Kfl bin Ouklrv class l./:nnl-(. 'tulgwim continue to do so. Overseas sub- Kditorial: All material submitted for lifeboat - James anil Catherine Macfarlune - scriptions depend on the cost of postage consideration with a view to publication pulls <ni<n from her bouthousc itl Kilcobbcn to the country concerned. Write to in the journal should be addressed to Cove. Tin- l.i:urtl. The Minion, with its RNLI. West Quay Road. Poole, Dorset the editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal Nation- dramatic backdrop, was opened M HK/l I lit' BH15 1HZ. al Lifeboat Institution. West Quay Duke of Edinburgh, in July /%/. The lifeboat, formerly at I'ail.siow, was transferred Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Tele- to Lizard-Cadgwith station in Julv IVR4. The phone Poole (0202) 671133). Photo- photograph was taken b\ I'eter B. Gunlaek Next issue: the Summer issue of THE graphs intended for return should be who generously offered n for u.\e in Tin: LIFEBOAT will appear in July and news accompanied by a stamped and addres- LimOAT. items should be sent in by the end sed envelope. 109 Cresting the waves: Ms magnificent photograph of the St Peter Port lifeboat Sir William Arnold was sent to THF. LIFEBOAT by Guernsey photographer Brian Green and shows the IV73-buill 52ft Arun in full cry, with Coxswain Peter Bisson at the helm. were shown slide presentations and films. Those wishing to pay a visit in 1987 are welcome and are asked to contact RNLI headquarters well in advance to arrange a convenient time. Royal meeting father was keeper. It will also be 25 Guest of honour at this year's annual years since the first inflatable lifeboat Lifeboats of the world presentation of awards at the Royal was introduced into the RNLI's fleet. The 15th International Lifeboat Festival Hall will be Her Royal Both these events have had far- Conference takes place in June this year Highness the Duchess of Kent. The reaching effects upon the RNLI in their and is to be held in La Coruna in ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the different ways and the Institution northern Spain. Some 25 lifeboat afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, intends to publicise their anniversaries societies from all over the world are when the Duchess will he presenting as much as possible with associated fund expected to attend the four-yearly con- bravery medals to lifeboatmen and raising projects. RNLI stations, ference and lifeboats from several other awards to long-serving voluntary branches and guilds who may also be European countries will be on view to workers. The Duchess of Kent, whose planning to commemorate one or both delegates. The RNLI which acts as husband is President of the RNLI, has of these anniversaries are asked to secretariat for the International Life- long been involved with the lifeboat contact the PR department in Poole to boat Conference will be represented service, attending many naming discuss any support they may require and will be sending a 52ft Arun class ceremonies and other RNLI functions. and so that all efforts can be co- lifeboat to La Coruna. An Arun class lifeboat, funded by the ordinated. Freemasons and in the relief fleet of the The book that never was Institution bears her name. Welcome visitors Alistair Maclean, the author who Over 2,800 people visited RNLI died in February, had apparently been Anniversaries headquarters in Poole during 1986. This thinking for some years of writing a Next year, 1988, marks two is over and above the number that came novel about the lifeboat service. This important anniversaries for the RNLI. on Open Days in July. A large tantalising fact came to light after he It will be 150 years since Grace Darling proportion of these visitors were school had sent in signed copies of two of his took part in the famous rescue of the parties although a variety of other novels to the Leeds book auction in crew of the Forfarshire, wrecked close groups and individuals toured the RNLI aid of the RNLI (reported in the last to the Longstone Lighthouse where her museum, depot, souvenir shop and issue of THE LIFEBOAT). A short while 110 NEWS POINT GIVE AS YOU EARN The tax man and the RNLI have not always seen eye to eye, particularly when it comes to matters like VAT, when the RNLI still pays back to the Ex- chequer each year an amount equivalent to the cost of a new lifeboat. However, the new scheme. Give As You Earn, which started on April 6 this year and which allows employees to allocate a weekly or monthly deduction from their pay to a charity or charities of their choice Frozen asset: the relief Waveney Khami on duty at Sheerness in January, pictured after a before the tax man has taken his heavy overnight snowfall during the bad weather that month. The photograph was sent to us bv Coxswain Robin Castle, who drew our attention to the frozen sea surrounding the lifeboat. share, is an example of the more considerate side of his nature. The Charities Aid Foundation, who are at present the only body to set themselves up as an agency to receive and distribute payroll donations, consider that the scheme is quite capable of generating an extra £100 million for charities. For this target to be reached, however, Give As You Earn must be brought to the attention of as many employers and employees as possible and this is where you, the reader, comes in. The RNLI, which stands to receive a healthy share of the potential £100 million, is relying upon its supporters to help per- suade employers to set up the 'Life' landmark: Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, pictured during the special scheme and employees to include "This Is Your Life" programme about him. Derek, holder of the «/;.«, two silver and one bronze the RNLI in their list of chosen RNLI bravery awards, as well as a Royal Humane Society award, said: "It was one of the charities. happiest days of my life. It was a landmark in my life which I shall never forget." The secret was An explanation of Give As kept from him for 14 days and he was lured to the Thames Television studios on the pretext of You Earn appears on page 132 taking part in another programme about rescuers and those they save, only to find himself confronted by Eamonn Andrews and the famous big red book. His wife Pat and other members and there are more details in a ofhisfamilv took part, as well as The Mumbles lifeboat crew members and manv of those Derek leaflet which is enclosed with this has helped to rescue in his 40 \ears as a lifeboatman.