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SUPPORTING THE LIFEBOATS Surname (Mr/Mrs/Miss/Title)(Bi_ocK LETTERS, PLEASE) First name(s) in full : Add ress Post Code. Signature(s) (Joint applicants should all sign and attach addresses separately) Registered in England No 1242681 Not available in the Republic of Ireland. LB 4 85 I THE Royal National Lifeboat LIFEBOAT Institution Spring 1985 Contents RNLI News. 146 Lifeboat Services 149 Volume XLIX Number 491 Sheringham's Retiring Coxswain (left) by Edward Wake-Walker. 156 Chairman: Cornish Correspondent THE DUKE OF ATHOLL by John Corin 160 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Shoreline. 163 Books. 163 Editor: People and places. 164 EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Boat Shows. 166 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole (0202) 671133). Letters 167 Telex: 41328. London Offices: RNLIKE CRAZY (left) Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW by Sally Wilson 168 (Telephone 01-928 4236). The Lifeboat Service— Advertisement Manager: past and present 169 COLIN PEGLEY Jackson-Rudd & Associates, Oldebourne House, 46-47 Chancery Lane, London The Fund Raisers . 170 WC2A 1JB (Telephone 01-405 3611/2 and 01-405 2860). Lifeboat Services, August, September and October 1984. 176 Printers: The Friary Press, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset. Awards to coxswains, crews and shorehelpers , 178 Subscription: A year's subscription of April. News items for the Autumn issue four issues costs £3.00, including should be sent in by the end of July. postage, but those who are entitled to receive THE LIFEBOAT free of charge will Editorial: All material submitted for continue to do so. Overseas consideration with a view to publication subscriptions depend on the cost of in the journal should be addressed to postage to the country concerned. the editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal COVER PICTURE Write to RNLI, West Quay Road, National Lifeboat Institution, West Bembridge lifeboat, Jack Shayler and the Lees, at full speed. She is a 48ft 6in Solent Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ. Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ class lifeboat, built in 1969. She has a steel (Telephone Poole (0202) 671133). hull and is launched down a slipway from her Next issue: the Summer issue of THE Photographs intended for return should boathouse. The photograph was taken by LIFEBOAT will appear in July and news be accompanied by a stamped and David Trotter. items should be sent by the end of addressed envelope. 145 * • • * • * Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Eli- zabeth Ann, photographed during a service to the French trawler, St Simeon on February 15, 1985. Penlee and Plymouth lifeboats were also involved in the service, a full account of which will appear in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Photograph of courtesy of David Brenchley, Cornish Photonews Storm Force Richard Baker at Awards Readers from Eire, please note Storm Force, the new RNLI member- Presentation All the prices quoted in THE LIFEBOAT, ship scheme for everybody under 16, The well-known broadcaster, Richard both in advertisements and editorial, was launched at the London Boat Show Baker, OBE RD, will be guest speaker are pound sterling. It is important on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who at the Annual Presentation of Awards therefore, due to the difference in value plays Roland Browning and Simone ceremony which takes place in the between the British pound and the Irish Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of Royal Festival Hall at the new time punt, that all payments should be made BBC Television's Grange Hill. of 2.30 pm on Tuesday May 21, 1985. in sterling, or its equivalent current Already hundreds of children have The AGM of the RNLI takes place at value in Irish punts. joined—or been enrolled by their par- 11.30 am on the morning of May 21 in ents or grandparents. Several clubs the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Cup of kindness have become group members and are Once again, the generous American, planning fund raising projects. So many Hydrographer appointment Mr J. P. Young from San Francisco, letters are being received from young Rear Admiral R. Morris has suc- distributed bottles of White Horse whis- members that it has been decided to ceeded Rear Admiral Sir David Haslam ky to RNLI lifeboatmen in December. print prize-winning star and runners-up as Hydrographer of the Navy and will It is his way of showing admiration for letters in subsequent Storm Force serve as an ex-officio member of the their work and last Christmas it was the newsletters. RNLI Committee of Management. turn of lifeboat crews from the Scot- 146 land North Division to benefit. It scarcely needs saying just how well the gift went down in that part of the world. THE LIFEBOAT editor retires Joan Davies, who has just retired after 11 years with the RNLI, was only the third editor of THE LIFEBOAT during the last sixty years. The other two were Charles Vince and Patrick Howarth, who points out that before Charles Vince's appointment as publicity secre- tary in 1931, THE LIFEBOAT was really Prince Edward at the helm: Prince Edward paid a private visit to Hunstanton lifeboat station on January 7, while on holiday at Sandringham.