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The Lifeboat D THE JOURNAL OF THE RNLI Volume XLIV Number 459 Spring 1977 25p CLOTHING IN THE WORLD and sold c! unctional < suppliers of weathe ! tn thp R N off-shore oil ac ) the United KM Jacket with Contour Hood No. 4 Seagoing Overtrousers No. 21 ^B Cold Weather Jacket No. 15 Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The 'Airflow' coat overtrousers waterproof weather clothing in and jackets are outer clothing which very cold conditions provide wind and waterproof warmth in Supplied to life-boat services winter these overtrousers are chest This Cold Weather Jacket has high and have elasticated waist four pockets, shoulder straps, and braces, a fly, adjustable leg two way zip and an outer of Our claim of true all-weather comfort Widening, heavy incorrodible unproofed nylon. Deep pile in them is made possible by Functional zips, touch n close fastening trousers, breeches and a one 'Airflow' a unique patented method of and substantial re-inforcement piece suit are also available clothing construction fora long life They are not waterproof or wind proof The range includes conventional overtrousers. ventilated working ROYAL NATIONAL overtrousers and lightweight LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Letter vom ventilated walking overtrousers Removable Most garments are available in Foamjiner fabrics of six shades within wind and Illustrated catalogue 20 pence the waterproof from Manchester garment coated Industrial and personal customers are welcome at our Showrooms at Manchester nylon (Monday to Friday) and at London (Monday to noon on Saturday One Foamliner is normally fitted within Coat and Jackets but a second one may be inserted for severe cold FUNCTIONAL The "foam sandwich" Airflow principle allows the passage of three layers of air between the outer and lining fabrics, insulating and 20 Chepstow Street Manchester M1 5JF Telephone: 061-236 2606 iht or bulk 9 Alfred Place Store Street Tottenham Court Road London WC1E 7EB Telephone: 01-580 4906 '>e condensation unless ompressed THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1977 s~~\ -f/2kv>-f o Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 255 Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 257 _ _ i VT T\ T Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: V OlUrFie -/V-Ll V an introduction to an introduction, by Leslie J. Vipond, Inspector, Mobile Numbe._ r 459 Training Unit .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 264 Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews, by Stuart Welford, BTBCH MIMCCHE MRINA, Research and Development Officer, RNLI .. .. .. .. .. 265 Outboard: Watertight 266 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB ^ ^fe y ^ ^^ ^ Director and Secretary: Some Ways of Raising Money 271 CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN International Boat Show, by Ray Kipling, Deputy Public Relations Officer, RNLI 274 Here and There 275 Shoreline 276 Managing Editor: PATRICK HOWARTH Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part III—In frame 277 Editor: Book Revjews 279 JOAN DAVIES Letters 281 Headquarters: Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers .. .. .. .. 282 m?ShRoyal NationaRo«"po*7iSrl Life-boat InstitutionBH'5, "»-"»* *> . , __. Offshore Lifeboat Services, September, October and November 1976 .. 285 London Office: Royal National Life-boat Institution, 21 .,, _. _ . „ . ,., , „„ , Ebury Street, London SW1W OLD TInshor1 e TLifeboat Services, September, October and November 1976 .. 286 (Telephone Ol'-730 0031). Index to Advertisers 288 Editorial: All material submitted for Advertisements: All advertising en- consideration with a view to publication quiries should be addressed to Dyson in the journal should be addressed to the Advertising Services, PO Box 9, Godal- editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal National ming, Surrey (Telephone Godalming Life-boat Institution, West Quay Road, (04868) 23675). COVER PICTURE Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole 71133). Photographs intended for Return from exercise: Portrush's 46' 9" return should be accompanied by a Watson lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil stamped and addressed envelope. Subscription: A year's subscription of Service No. 4) returns to harbour. A four issues costs £1.40, including housed slipway boat built in 1949, she Next Issues: The Summer issue of THE postage, but those who are entitled to has, since going on station, launched on LIFEBOAT will appear in July and news receive THE LIFEBOAT free of charge will service 127 times and rescued 69 lives. items should be sent by the end of continue to do so. Overseas subscrip- The photograph was taken by Colin April. News items for the Autumn issue tions depend on the cost of postage to Watson. should be sent in by the end of July. the country concerned. 253 We take pride in the fact that we supply COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I. FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses engines Henry Browne & Son Limited Compass Craftsmen since 1885 Head Office ft Sales Department Sestrel House, Loxford Road, Barking Essex. Telephone: 01-594 4054Telex: 896909 Showrooms 79 Grosvenor Street, London W1X OEQ. 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He added succeeded in taking a yacht in tow and that the incident emphasized again thus rescuing eight people, one of them that 'lifeboat work is a very dangerous the daughter of the well-known actress occupation, regardless of modern Moira Lister. development in lifeboat construction'. Some of the Weymouth crew had felt The conclusion he reached was that in apprehensive about the possible be- lifeboat design and construction any haviour of the Arun lifeboat in the tendency 'to subordinate strength to conditions which prevailed. They speed, and perhaps economy in some returned, in the words of the inspector cases' must be avoided. who investigated the service, Lieut.- From the description of the service Commander Roy Portchmouth, with on page 259 it will be seen that the crew, 'the conviction on the part of every with great faith in their boat, would Weymouth crew member that the Arun NOTES OF have launched again before repairs had has proved herself completely'. been made, and that in fact temporary Detailed descriptions of the Wey- THE QUARTER repairs and extra strengthening were mouth service appear on page 258. completed on the slipway in less than Queen's Silver Jubilee 24 hours. A full and urgent investigation In the Silver Jubilee year HM The is in progress into the possible need for Queen will honour the RNLI by naming by Patrick Howarth further strengthening. the new Hartlepool lifeboat on July 14. This is the Waveney lifeboat which the Further success of the Arun lifeboat Scout Association provided through That the RNLI has succeeded in 'Operation Lifeboat' which was launched A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been combining greater speed both with the in 1974 to mark the RNLI's 150th narrowly averted last December. Soon strength and stability which are required, anniversary. after the Padstow lifeboat had launched was effectively shown in a service HM The Queen, who is Patron of the late in the evening of December 7, she carried out nearly two months earlier. Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat was struck by three exceptionally heavy After an intense cyclone with winds of. Fund, has graciously agreed that, to seas. A considerable weight of water hurricane force had been moving celebrate her 25 years on the throne, dropped almost vertically on to the steadily up the south coast of England the new Rother class lifeboat being canopy forward of the wheelhouse the night before, the Arun class lifeboat donated to the RNLI by the Fund shall smashing the windscreen glass. The stationed at Weymouth had launched be named Silver Jubilee. This lifeboat is coxswain, Anthony Warnock, was con- on the afternoon of October 14. Second Civil Service No. 38 and will be stationed cussed and temporarily blinded from a Coxswain Victor Pitman, who was in at Margate; she was on the RNLI head wound, but the second coxswain, command, later described the seas as stand at the recent Boat Show, where she was visited by a large number of people. 37' Oakley lifeboat James The RNLI has itself decided to cele- and Catherine Macfarlane, brate the Queen's Silver Jubilee by back in Padstow after her service of December 7. (I. naming a lifeboat in honour of its to r.) Second Coxswain President, the Duke of Kent. In reaching Trevor England, Dl (SW) this decision the RNLI's Committee Lt.-Cdr. R. S.
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