The Spring1999
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Number 547 News and Views The magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution The latest news from and about the RNLI West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ. Telephone Poole (01202) 663000 Lifeboat Services 8 Telex 41328 Including Bronze Medal and Vellum winning rescues www.rnli.org.uk email: [email protected] Anniversary Special 14
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Chairman: Director and Secretary: Three items looking at 175 years of aspects of the RNLI ...plus Sir William Hillary's famous Appeal of 1823
In the Beginning... 14 David Acland DL Andrew Freemantle MBE Sir William Hillary's historic Appeal to the Nation Moving with the Times 15 The Lifeboat From a single room to a purpose-built HQ House Style 16 Editor: Editorial Assistant: How boathouses have developed over 175 years Drawing from Experience 18 Lifeboat 'design and development
Your Letters 20 Readers put pen to paper
Mike Floyd Jon Jones Stormy Stan Says... 23 New developments to encourage young supporters and a Advertisement Editorial (01202)663188 double page spread from Storm Force magazine - which will Administrator: Fax (01202) 663189 interest older readers too!
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Membership Enquiries Lifeboat Lexicon 29 (01202)663234 Continuing our occasional series... Tizzy Perkins email: [email protected] This time what those lifeboat numbers signify Front Cover Bookshelf 30 Cullercoats' Atlantic 21 A look at some of the latest books on lifeboats and the sea Lifeboat Edmund and Joan White makes a fine sight as People and Places 33 she avoids a breaking Around and about the RNLI wave off the north east coast. The Fundraisers 35 How some of the RNLI's funds are raised
Photo by Rick Tomlinson List of launches 41 Station-by-station lifeboat launches for August, September and October 1998 17 5 years of saving lives at sea
Charting our course N EWSPOI NT for the future
Vision and Values for the RNLI can almost hear your groans as I mention two business of the Institution for the buzzwords currently in fashion. Notwithstanding this future. It is not just for me healthy cynicism - I need your help. or the SMT to decide 'top My early impressions of the Service are that it has, down' what the Vision for among many other assets, a very clear idea of where it has the Institution should be al- come from. The Institution is steeped in history and has a though, clearly, I and my wonderful heritage hard earned by generations of brave senior colleagues have a lifeboat crews and dedicated fundraisers. Everyone I have view on what it might be. spoken to; crew members, shorehelpers, voluntary workers At this stage, I envisage or staff members, is very clear about what the RNLI is here such words as, 'recog- to do - our purpose, which is to save lives from disaster at nised', 'international', sea. 'leader', 'professional', and Where there seems to be a little less certainty is around 'innovative', as being ones that could well feature in a Vision two areas: for the Institution which, incidentally, should not be more • Where we are going as an Institution? What sort of than two or three lines long. organisation do we want the RNLI to be in, say, 10 or 15 The sort of words I am beginning to consider as worthy years time? What, in jargon terms, should be our Vision? of being Values for the RNLI are, 'selfless', 'volunteer', • What are the virtues we hold most dear and underpin 'skilled', 'courageous', 'steadfast'. everything we do and feel about the service; what, You may disagree with or wish to challenge these first simply, are the shared Values of the RNLI? impressions and thoughts of mine - please do so. I ask you After only four months in the organisation and just four to do this because the design of Vision and Values is very weeks in post, I am beginning to develop my own ideas on much a 'bottom up' process involving wide consultation these two key issues. However, I recognise that I am new throughout the Institution lasting several months. With this and that the RNLI is a rich and varied organisation, the in mind I have asked Ian Ventham, the RNLI's Head of complexities of which cannot fully be understood by anyone Fundraising and Marketing, and a small staff team to initiate after such a short time. an exercise called 'Vision and Values - charting our course Yet it is my job to provide a clear sense of direction for for the future'. the future. This is something which, with my Senior Manage- From now on, at numerous normal meetings and gath- ment Team, I fully intend to do throughout my term as your erings that you will attend, or perhaps direct to some of you Director. by post, we will be trying to give everyone involved in the life Which is why I need your help. I would like of the RNLI an opportunity to participate in defining these everyone who has a 'stake' in the RNLI two areas of our life: - crews, shorehelpers branch, com- • Our Vision - which is where we want to get to as an mittee members, trustees, Institution. fundraisers, members, gover- • The Values that should underpin everything we do. nors, staff and those who work The aim of this is to ensure that, by the end of this year, alongside us, to contribute to everyone in the Institution will know where we are trying to an exercise to help me and my get to and the values that we will apply along the way. senior team chart the course Please play a full part in this process. Try not to be cynical, at least until you really find out what we are aiming Charting our course for the to do! future... the RNLI is setting out i\. ..^ IW--«— to define its Visions and Values
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Report and inset photo by Martin ^Woodiuard, Bembridge lifeboat coxswain. MLain photo by Steve Guscott.
ne of the most famous launches in the history of the the hills. A huge crowd of locals and spectators were gathered RNLI was realistically re-enacted on 12 January - the at Porlock Weir to welcome the procession, and the atmosphere Oexact centenary anniversary of the actual service. was incredible. The incredible story of the 1899 overland launch of the When considering that the original overland launch took ten Lynmouth lifeboat Louisa was relived when the newly hours, which included dismantling walls, taking the boat off its restored 1887 ex-Bembridge pulling and sailing lifeboat carriage to get through gates, and numerous other obstacles, it Queen Victoria was hauled 14 miles across Exmoor from is amazing that they achieved it in that time. It was also carried Lynmouth to Porlock Weir. The Queen Victoria was built in out during the night, with no lighting, and no food or drink. At the exactly the same year as Louisa and was of virtually the same end of that arduous journey, the crew launched the lifeboat and dimensions. She was transported up from the Isle of Wight took it to sea, which just goes to show what incredible characters for the event, and had recently been fully restored back to they were in that era. superb original condition after being acquired as a derelict by All those who walked the whole distance on the re-enactment the present Bembridge coxswain. were in total agreement that it was nothing by comparison to the Five local shire horses and dozens of volunteers were original journey in 1899, but it made everyone even more used to pull the boat through gale force winds, sleet, and appreciative of the selflessness and dedication of the crew at driving rain. Ironically, it was a repeat of the same weather that time. that prevailed at the original launch. The original launch was to The organisation of the re-enactment event was superb, and the 1,900 ton sailing vessel Forest Hall which was dragging the whole local community seemed to be involved in some way. its anchors off Porlock with a broken rudder, and in danger of Special praise should go to Event Co-ordinator Edward Nightin- being driven ashore. As it was too rough to launch the lifeboat gale, and Event Manager Ashley Clark, who worked extremely at Lynmouth, the incredible decision was made to go over- hard to make the project possible. Their team were responsible land and launch from Porlock Weir, which was more shel- for making the re-enactment so successful, and creating such a tered from the storm. superb and memorable day. The total time taken for the re-enactment of the launch was It was superb to see the ex-1887 Bembridge lifeboat Queen six and a half hours, with a little help from modern technology on Victoria used for such a memorable and authentic event, and it certainly warmed the hearts of those who have been involved in Mini artics for MTUs! the long struggle to restore her. Despite numerous approaches to many other organisations who turned the restoration project The RNLI recently took delivery of three MAN down due to the poor condition of the boat, the Classic Boat 7.5 tonne tractor units Museum on the Isle of Wight accepted the task with no reser- with a difference - they vations whatsoever, and did a magnificent job of the restoration. are the first of their type She was completed and launched in June 1998, and has been in the UK! involved in several events since, which helps towards paying off The chassis have the remaining restoration costs. Anyone who is interested in been converted into having the boat present at an event should contact Martin 'mini-artics' for coupling Woodward for details on (01983) 873125. to the RNLI's mobile training units tMTUs) which travel the length and breath of the UK and Republic of Ireland taking training to the There is no doubt that all who took part in the 1999 re- stations. The tractor units are equipped with sleeper cabs, six- enactment will not forget such a fitting tribute to the achieve- speed gearboxes, rear air suspension and 'mini' fifth wheels. ments of those courageous characters of a hundred years ago. 175 years of saving lives at sea
All aboard Stormforce 10! As part of the 175th anniversary celebra- tions, Drayton Manor Family Theme Park has teamed up with the RNLI to launch a fabulous new white water experience - Stormforce 10. The new 'wet knuckle ride', which recreates a dramatic lifeboat rescue mission, is unique to Europe and is the UK's first reverse chute water coaster. It has a 180 degree platform to send boats backwards down a 9 metre drop - hitting speeds of 40mph and pulling over 3g! It is also the first ride in the world to be associated with a registered charity and fundraising generated by the ride will be donated to lifeboat coffers to pay for a brand new Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat. Stormforce 10, due to be launched by a boatful of lifeboat crew members on 1 May, is a must for any brave RNLI member. Drayton Manor Family Theme Park, home of the award winning 'Shockwave', the UK's only stand-up roller coaster and many other exciting rides, can be found just off Junction 9 of the M42 near Birmingham. For further information call (01827) 287979 (24 hour info-line) or browse at www.dravtonmanor.co.uk New Year Honours The following have been honoured with awards Another successful show by Her Majesty The Queen in the recent New Despite the media Years Honours: hype of an impending FOR SERVICES TO THE RNLI S/iiE recession, exhibitors LONDON BOAT SHOW Officer, Order of the British Empire (QBE) •-17 JANUARY generated record sales Mr A K S (Roly) Franks - RNLI Deputy Chairman. at the 45th London For services to the RNLI and the Royal Hospital boat Show in January and the RNLI for Neuro-disability. was no exception with provisional Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE) income figures topping £35,000. Mr Keith Horrocks - lately Blackpool lifeboat Once again the RNLI stand crew member (Blackpool Visitor Centre Co- attracted thousands of visitors who ordinator). saw a variety of exciting displays Mr Raymond Thomas - Honorary Secretary, St including, a lifeboat wheelhouse representation, video wall, interac- Agnes lifeboat station. tive Sea Safety section, model lifeboats, crew members through OTHER AWARDS OF INTEREST the years, as well as all the usual features. Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) The Lord Digby - Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 175 year launched Commander, Royal Victorian Order (CVO) RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, officially Commander Michael Higham - lately Grand launched the 175th anniversary year at the Secretary, United Grand Lodge of England (The Earl's Court Boat show, setting the wheels in 175 years Freemasons have funded 11 lifeboats). of saving lives at sea motion for the 1999 calendar of events. Commander, Order of the British Empire The dates for the Flotilla week at Poole have now been an- (CBE) nounced as 20-26 June with 23 June selected as the day for the Mrs Margaret Farquhar - Lord Provost, Aberdeen flotilla sail-past at Poole Quay. There will be a terrific festival City Council for services to local government atmosphere all day on Poole Quay with lots to do and see including (President, Aberdeen station branch). the 175th anniversary roadshow. Everyone is welcome to come to Mr Ron Neil - lately Chief Executive, BBC production for services to broadcasting (Chair- this event, but space will be limited and it may not be possible for everyone to get a good view - unfortunately it is not possible to man of the Public Relations Committee). issue tickets or guarantee seats to see the flotilla. Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE) As there will be tremendous pressure on staff resources during Dr Judith Spenceley - General Medical Practi- the entire week, there will be no Open Day at HQ - but the Depot tioner, Inverness, for services to health care site will be open to visitors on the flotilla day for limited access to (Honorary Secretary of the Inverness guild). view some of the boats and static displays. Mr Michael Tregear - for services to the Territo- rial Army (Sennen Cove lifeboat crew member). 175 years of saving lives at sea
Caught in the Farewell to an old friend It can sometimes be forgotten web... again that the excitement of having a There was a fair amount of interest in the list of new lifeboat on station is often lifeboat-related web sites which we published in tinged with real sadness at the Winter '98/99 issue of The Lifeboat. losing an old friend - a lifeboat As a result we have several additions to the list, which has see the crew through some deletions and some changes of address. thick and thin and whose every Please let us know if you have any further informa- nut, bolt and foible is well tion. known to them. We do not have the resources to guarantee the When the crew from accuracy or completeness of the list which we Broughty Ferry brought their -*•-» hold, but it can be emailed to readers of The Arun Spirit of Tayside into the Lifeboat on request. Email [email protected] Poole Depot for - but please bear in mind that we might be busy decommissioning they felt that producing the next issue when it arrives. We'll they had to respect her 20 years reply as soon as possible! of service at their station by We could also make the list available on 3.5in doing so in style - and full floppy disk, but only as a Word file in Macintosh traditional dress. format at the moment. Please send a donation to Once safely alongside they cover the cost of the floppy and postage. allowed themselves a private And, if you haven't been there already, you farewell involving traditional really should visit the RNLI at www.rnli.org.uk, Scottish 'tea' - and our photog- which also links to the interactive RNLI's Sea rapher. Remarkably the horizon Safety site at www.seasafety.org.uk. in his photograph is straight and he managed to get all the crew in the photo... Magnificent as the crew Anniversary appeared we have it on good authority that Musto are not going to be Calendar .„- commissioned to design yellow, foul-weather kilts. Don't miss these 1 / J special 175th of saving lives at sea Selsey Celebration Anniversary Events More than 300 people gathered on the foreshore at Selsey on 6 • 1 May 1999 Opening of the Stormforce September last year for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Peter Cornish. 10 flume ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park John Plant, the Chairman of the Appeal Committee handed the • 24-28 May 1999 Chelsea Flower Show, new boat over to the RNLI, represented on this occasion by George London. Gateshead Borough Council has Rawlinson the Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats for the south. designed and planted the first-ever floral George was then able to hand the boat over to the station, with lifeboat and slipway! Honorary Secretary Clive Cockayne doing the honours on its behalf. • 27 May 1999 RNLI AGM and Presenta- The lifeboat was named Peter Cornish by Mrs Barbara Cornish, tion of Awards at the Barbican Centre, London. accompanied by her sons Robert and Gavin, in honour of her late Come and see the special birthday cake! husband. • 4-6 June 1999 Lifeboat Challenge. Find After a service of dedication the lifeboat was launched for a short out how many lifeboat stations can be visited in display of her capabilities before the guests repaired to the boat- 48 hours - or try it yourself! house for a buffet. • 20-26 June 1999 International Lifeboat Conference at Bournemouth, including... Weymouth Ceremony • 23 June 1999 Spectacular flotilla of new, Weymouth's new Atlantic 75 Phyl Clare 3 was named during a historic and overseas lifeboats off Poole Quay ceremony held at the quayside boathouse on 3 October 1998. (morning) Although the station has been operating an Atlantic alongside its Arun since 1995 the previous boats have been from the relief fleet Roadshow Dates and this was an opportunity to welcome their own Atlantic, which 20-26 June, Poole Quay had arrived during May, to the harbour. 2-7 July, Exeter (Granada Services, junction 30 M5) The boat was funded by Mr and Mrs Cleare, and in fair weather 13-17 July, Manchester (Albert Square) and sunshine a large crowd of invited guests watched Mrs Phyl 19-22 July, Builth Wells (Royal Welsh Show) Cleare hand her over to the RNLI's soon-to-retire Director Brian 24-28 July, Blackpool (seafront) Miles. Brian Miles then passed the Atlantic into the care of the station, represented by the Honorary Secretary and past medal- 31 July-2 August, Greenock (Tall Ships) winning coxswain, Derek Sergeant. After the dedication service Mrs 18-22 August, Gateshead (Metro Centre) Cleare wetted the boat with the traditional champagne - making sure 25-30 August, Brighton (seafront) that there was enough left for the crew to toast their new boat! 175 years of saving lives at sea
Director to run in Another busy year Provisional statistics released at the year-end showed that during 1998, for London Marathon the fifth year in a row, lifeboats launched more than 5,000 times. RNLI Director, The figure has been falling slightly since the alarming peak of 6,108 in Andrew Freemantle, 1995, although with an average of 14 launches a day the demands on the is taking part in the service are still very heavy. Flora London The RNLI's Sea Safety Initiative was introduced in 1994, as launch Marathon on 18 April numbers rose rapidly, and Peter Bradley, the RNLI's Sea Safety Officer was to raise funds for the pleased to see the slowly falling trend. 'We have begun to see signs that our lifeboats. safety messages are getting through,' he said, 'and we hope this is another Mr Freemantle is indication'. training hard for what The figures followed a similar pattern to previous years, although the will be his first full percentage of calls to pleasure craft fell slightly (down 2% to 54%) and the marathon and says, ' percentage to swimmers and people cut of by the tide rose by 2% to 23%. have realised, in Other interesting aspects are that inshore lifeboats carried out nearly 63% many ways, mara- of all services; July was once again the busiest month and the long-suffering thon runners have volunteer crews spent a total of 38,186 hours at sea - or, looked at in a different much in common way, that's four years and four months at sea! with our volunteer crews. Commitment, stamina, courage and RNLI rides again... grit are values that are important to the runner The RNLI is again looking for 50 cyclists to take part in an Arctic adventure. The and the crew member alike.' 500km North Cape Escape route is along the Arctic Highway in northern The RNLI is encouraging marathon runners to Norway - land of the midnight sun. fundraise for the lifeboat and run with the Team The cycle challenge will take place from 26 June to 4 July to raise funds for Lifeboat'. In return, runners will be well looked the lifeboats and the destination will be the most northerly lifeboat station in after. They will receive a training guide, help with Europe. generating sponsorship, a running vest and Last years team raised over £50,000 and this year, as the RNLI celebrates invitations to a pre-race pasta party. Once the 175 years of saving life at sea, the team is hoping to raise over £100,00. gruelling 26 miles are completed, RNLI runners Challengers will be well looked after and can expect to have the adventure will be able to relax at a post-race indoor beach of a lifetime, although the main objective is to raise cash for the RNLI and each party at a venue minutes form the finish line, member will be expected to raise at least £2,500 to cover the cost of the trip where facilities will include showers, a relaxing and a donation. massage and a few well-earned drinks. For If you are interested in taking part in the North Cape Escape, contact Sue further information see the advertisement on Portsmouth on (01202) 663234 for further information. page 39 of this issue of The Lifeboat Get away with the Aberdeen Double lifeboat lottery Mother nature was kind enough to give Aberdeen a break in its run of bad weather on 17 October, to allow the gathered crowds to enjoy the opening of station's new boathouse and naming cer- emony of its new inshore lifeboat, Margaret II. Chairman Alastair Lindsay opened proceedings and following the National Anthem, the lifeboat was handed over to the station by Andrew Cubie, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. The lifeboat was accepted on behalf By now those of you who receive lottery tickets of the station by George Booth, Station Honorary Secretary, and a will know that the top prize is a stunning service of dedication for the new lifeboat and building followed. Peugeot 206. The lucky winner will drive off with The lifeboat, donated by Mrs M. Minett of Caterham in memory their prize when they simply collect the car from of her late mother, was named by Mrs Mary Addison whose late their local Peugeot dealership! husband was a senior branch official as well a member of the It is thanks to Peugeot's kind sponsorship that Committee of Management. A plaque to mark to opening of the we are able to offer such a marvellous first prize. new boathouse was unveiled by Mrs Thelma Cowper, a member of In addition there are eight runner-up prizes, the fundraising branch and whose family connections with the ranging from £100 to £1,000. If you would like station go back some 80 years. to receive tickets for this, and future lotteries, To round off the day, a crew-organised ceilidh and dance at a please contact Rebekah Rose on (01202) local hotel raised over £950. 663219, 8.00am to 5.00pm, weekdays. Last year, legacies helped us launch over 6,000 times
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Three rescued after IJfeboats yacht is rolled in storm force winds trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat A when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had been capsized and dismasted 20 miles from the station. The service which followed won Second Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer the RNLI's Bronze Medal and Courtmacsherry Harbour letters of thanks from the Old Head ol Kinsale Institution's Chairman for the rest of the crew. A deep depression passing to the north had brought Storm Force winds to the southern Irish coast, whipping up seas more than 30ft high. As they set out in total darkness at around 2000 Second Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer and his crew were well aware of the \ The lifeboat: conditions they would meet, as they Trent Class 14-07 had been out on exercise earlier that Frederick Storey Cockburn day. Nautical Miles The crew: Bronze Medal The casualty was the 42ft ketch 2nd Coxn Daniel O'Dwyer Supertaff with three people aboard - Chairman's letter of thanks owners Neil and Mandy Chapman and their Asst Mech Colin Bateman 23 October, there was a tremendous bang and Crew members Michael Cox cousin Danny - which had been the victim of a Supenaffwas rolled through 360° - both masts were Patrick Lawton cruel chain of events. carried away and the cabin windows stove-in on one Alan Locke Brian O'Donovan Depression side, allowing a considerable amount of water in to Michael O'Donovan Supertaff had been five days into an extended the boat. cruise, heading for Madeira, when Danny's All three people on board were thrown about as seasickness became so severe that the decision the yacht rolled over, and Danny suffered cuts while (Below) Second Coxswain was taken to head towards the Irish coast and Mandy was thought to have broken her arm. Dan O'Dwyer with the wait for quieter weather. Approaching the coast With the masts gone Supertaff had no main VHP Trent class Frederick Storey conditions had been fair, and although a Cockburn. aerial, although Neil put out a Mayday call on a hand- depression was forecast to held set while they bailed and tried to make the yacht track through later there as safe as possible. seemed plenty of time to Mayday reach Kinsale safely. Because of the limited range of the hand-held About 13 miles from the radio no-one heard the Mayday. However some coast conditions had three hours later lights appeared on the horizon and deteriorated rapidly, and the Supenaff's second Mayday was picked up by the well-found Supertaff was approaching vessel -the Spanish oil tanker Sevantes. hove-to to wait for the Sevantes was able to relay the message to Cork weather to moderate. radio, and although the large ship was unable to offer Despite the 80 to 90-knot any direct assistance in the huge seas she stood by winds conditions aboard the yacht until help arrived. were relatively comfortable Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat crew was paged and her crew spent the time at 1955 and the station's Trent Frederick Storey playing board games and Cockburn put to sea shortly afterwards. Conditions making hot drinks. were deceptive in the harbour, which was in the lee Twenty-four hours later, of the land, but even here the wind was touching 70 at around 1700 on Saturday knots and strong enough to make even boarding the lifeboat difficult. Once under way the crew, who had already been out on exercise earlier, strapped themselves in for the passage, knowing just how rough it was likely to be. Once clear of the lee of the land the massive beam seas made holding the lifeboat's southerly course very tricky, but Dan O'Dwyer managed to maintain 21 knots despite the severe motion. The whole crew was greatly impressed by their lifeboat's performance in these extreme conditions. By 2022 the lifeboat had 15 miles left to run, and was in radio contact with Sevantes, and by 2105 she was at the scene. Mandy Chapman aboard Supertaff was impressed. They said the lifeboat was due at about 2105,' she said later, 'and dead on 2105 she arrived!' A helicopter from Shannon arrived at almost (Above) Neil and Mandy the same time and, while hovering in 70 knots of Chapman aboard the recovered Supertaff"in wind, reported that the yacht's masts and rigging Dungarvan. where they were lying in the water on her port side. are refitting her to Liferaft continue their voyage. (Rightl ... a far cry from This rigging was acting as a drogue, and that day in October last Supertaff was lying with her bow to the north- year when the couple east, with an inflated liferaft secured to her and their cousin were snatched to safety in starboard side next to the cockpit. Storm Force winds. The lifeboat eased in from the south-east, but it soon became obvious that it would not be possible to go alongside the casualty, which was being 7 must praise the crew in thrown around and buffeted by seas more than 35ft high. the highest degree for - and cut the line securing it Mandy Chapman's arm their professionalism, and to the yacht. The lifeboat had eased in was believed to be broken for the way they calmly at this time, so Coxswain closer, and as the painter O'Dwyer asked the looked after us in what securing the raft to the helicopter to see whether was a horrendous casualty was cut the liferaft blew clear of the yacht and she could be lifted directly situation' from the yacht or the liferaft. was swiftly brought alongside Neil Chapman The helicopter hovered the lifeboat. over Supenaff three times, Within five minutes of but the aircrew decided that it would not be safe leaving Supertaff all three survivors were safely in to try to lift anyone in the severe sea conditions. the Trent's wheelhouse and being tended by the They added that they thought it would also be too crew. dangerous to try to put a lifeboat crew member Although two of them were suffering badly from aboard the yacht. seasickness and all three were exhausted Mandy's The only option left for the transfer of the arm was not broken and they were declared fit survivors was to use their liferaft, so Coxswain enough to travel back to Courtmacsherry by lifeboat. O'Dwyer brought the lifeboat in towards The helicopter, which had remained nearby, then Supertaff's starboard, downwind, quarter. headed home. Evacuation At 2200 the lifeboat headed for Courtmacsherry, With the Trent's bow almost touching the still in heavy beam seas but with a slightly moderating yacht a heaving line was thrown across to the wind and was safely alongside by 2326. yacht's cockpit and the Trent backed quickly away Supertaff continued to drift but was salvaged by to hold station about 20m to leeward. She was a trawler 60 miles to the north-east near Helvick held there for some ten minutes while it was Head two days later. Neil and Mandy Chapman are attached to the liferaft and the three people now refitting her and hope to continue their cruise readied themselves for the evacuation. Two crew of a lifetime later this Summer. members were needed on the lifeboat's foredeck, constantly tending the line to prevent it from Neil has been a member of the RNLI's Offshore scheme since July 1997, and following his ordeal he snatching as the two vessels ranged up and down said '/ never thought I'd need the help of a lifeboat in the huge seas. crew. / believe all responsible sailors should show their By 2149 everything was ready and the three support of the RNLI by becomingan Offshore member.' survivors boarded the liferaft-with some difficulty Fishermen saved by inshore lifeboat
hen four anglers slipped into a rough sea near W Newcastle Co Down it took the combined efforts M of the station's D class inshore lifeboat and its Mersey 1/ettum class all-weather boat to snatch them to safety. The D class was working close inshore in a heavy Helmsman John Lowery ground swell, and the skill and judgement of her helmsman, John Lowery, earned him the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum. It was just before 1800 on of the Mersey arrived, it was decided to head for the Sunday 16 August when scene with only two people aboard. head launcher Peter Heaver It took only minutes to reach Maggy's Leap where saw an anxious couple park the lifeboat crew found five people in the water - Ian outside the nearby Coast- Williamson, another angler, having gone into the guard station. They were water to help when he realised that the four casualties looking for help for four were in trouble. anglers who were in the A group of people had gathered about 10ft above water about half-a-mile to the the men in the water, who were clinging to garden south at a place known as hoses which had been lowered to them. Maggy's Leap. The wind was Force 6 to 7, and although it was off He ran across to the the land the seas were confused at the base of the station to rocky shore. The waves were phone the being refracted around the Coastguard, 'All the while the headland and combined with who had just lifeboat was being the backwash from the shore received a 999 call about the buffetted, heeling were creating a nasty 6ft sea. incident and, as the pagers were John Lowery knew the area set off, set about readying first sharply to port as the well and was aware of a the D class and then the Mersey. sea receded to leave submerged rock nearby, so he The lifeboat: Helmsman John Lowery and the starboard side high approached carefully from the D class D430 crew member Brendan Rooney north-east, passing to the south (Relief lifeboat) were nearby and arrived very on the rocks' of the rock. The crew: Thanks on Vellum quickly. They paused briefly at The casualties were being Helmsman John Lowery the bottom of the slip with the boat in the water buffeted against the sloping rocks and were now in Chairman's letter of thanks hoping that an extra crew member would arrive. two groups. Helmsman Lowery decided that the Crew member Brendan Rooney Crew Member Mark Poland With people in the water there was no time to group of three would be easiest to approach at the Ian Williamson spare and when Frances Morgan, the Coxswain first attempt and quickly put the inf latable's starboard side alongside the rocks near to the group, making sure that the lifeboat could not crush them against the shore. One man was supporting himself, and another was being supported by the third. With the lifeboat bouncing against the rocks in the confused sea the fittest man was brought in and put up forward, and the second, who was injured, was brought in over the quarter. The third man, Ian Williamson, crawled in over the transom. He was dressed in a survival suit and had gone into the water to help the others. All the while the lifeboat was being buffeted, heeling sharply to port as the sea
The lifeboat house at Newcastle - Maggy's Leap is about half-a-mile to the left in this photograph
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receded to leave the starboard side high on the rocks. The engine skeg touched the rocks but the Simon Cooke, a outboard was in neutral and kept running. member of Torbay John Lowery now had a difficult decision. lifeboat crew, There were five people in the D class, two of them in a poor condition, and two more people in the unearths water nearby. an unusual The Mersey had arrived by now and was explanation for an standing off about 100 yards away, to avoid adding her wake to the confused seas. It would unusual service... have been dangerous to attempt to pick up the remaining people so Helmsman Lowery decided Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many to transfer the casualties to the all-weather boat - hours searching for people reported missing , but moving away towards it to cries of indignation not many get called out to look for a missing ghost! from the helpers on the cliff top. At 1749 on New Year's Day this year Brixham Within a few moments she was alongside, the Coastguard activated Torbay Lifeboat crews' pagers casualties transferred and, in response to a call after two anglers reported seeing an elderly lady from John Lowery for a third crew member. Mark staring out to see near Goodrington Beach, Paignton. Poland had joined the D class crew from the The anglers spotted her as they were preparing their Mersey. tackle, and when they next looked in her direction One of the men was on the verge of she had literally vanished into thin air. They thought unconsciousness and, with the station so close, they could see something floating in the water, so Coxswain Morgan decided to take the Mersey they alerted the Coastguard on their mobile phone back immediately for medical help. and a major search sprang into action. The inflatable quickly moved back to the shore, Torbay'sall-weatherand inshore lifeboats sped to where the remaining two men were in a hollow the scene and were soon joined by the Portland- under an overhanging rock. Putting her bow into based helicopter Whisky Bravo as well as numerous a crevice between them Helmsman Lowery was shore-based Coastguard and Police teams. Despite able to hold the inflatable in position while one a thorough search of the area no traces of the woman man was brought aboard each side. The motion were found and the search was eventually called off. was still severe, but with the lifeboat's stern now Now some light has been shed on the mystery facing the seas she was a little easier to thanks to John Wallis, a Goodrington resident and manoeuvre. proprietor of a local electrical shop. Once the remaining casualties were aboard John is convinced that the anglers had seen the the lifeboat was able to ease astern away from apparition of 'Sister Mary', as she has been dubbed, the shore, but could not avoid the submerged a French nun who worked at a hospital tending rock this time. The engine struck the obstruction, soldiers from the Napoleonic wars. damaging the skeg and propeller, but continued The buildings that now form the 'Inn on the Quay, to run. a popular tourist pub on the seaf ront at Goodrington, Hypothermia used to serve as a hospital for servicemen during the It was 1820 when the D class started for Napoleonic wars. Two French nuns worked there home, the two crew members attending the until it closed in 1817 and when they died their casualties. They were both suffering from remains were buried in a cemetery in the hospital hypothermia and abrasions and one had a severe, grounds. Eventually the land was developed and the bleeding head wound. graves were relocated to another part of town - and Ashore, the lifeboat station had become a ever since sightings of 'Sister Mary' have been casualty treatment area with crew members, reported. station officials and Coastguards helping two John reckons she comes to this part of the Doctors and an intensive care nurse - all of whom seawall to gaze across the sea to her home - or had been in the area and volunteered to help. perhaps to look for her old grave amongst the At 1838 an ambulance arrived, and a few trappings of tourism. minutes later a helicopter landed just outside the This isn't the first time this lady has been spotted,' town. Eventually all five casualties were safely on John said, 'one of my neighbours had a very similar their way to hospital, two who were severely experience one night. He spotted a lone elderly hypothermic to Belfast by helicopter and the woman staring out to sea - and when he looked remaining three to a local hospital by ambulance. again she had vanished into the night air.' A replacement engine was delivered to the As for Torbay lifeboat crew they remain ready to station that evening, but despite the punishment any calls for assistance - whether from this side of meted out to the D class as she was pounded the hereafter or the other. But perhaps the next time against the rocks she suffered surprisingly little they launch to the report of a missing woman in the damage - there were some abrasions to the hull area ectoplasmic meters and spectral gauges would and the VHP radio aerial had been damaged as the prove more useful than the usual nightsights and second man had been pulled aboard. searchlights!
l l Whitstable's Atlantic capsizes on service to f[shing^)gats
he dangers facing lifeboat crews were Tgraphicallc y illustrated at Whitstable on Sunday 3 January 1999 when the station's Atlantic was capsized by a breaking sea soon after launching. Helmsman Mike Judge and Crew Members Paul Kemp and Andy Williams had launched at 1330 to go to the aid of some angling dinghies when the capsize happened. Not long after launching into an The waves generated by onshore Force 9 Whitstable's the Force 9 onshore wind Atlantic begins to rise to a large were steep and short and the sea (main photol. The sea is so sleep that the bow continues to Atlantic had difficulty building rise and as she begins to fall back up enough speed to deal with into the next trough she is almost them. She punched through a vertical (top inset). She capsizes bow over stern and floats few before being hit by a upsidedown (lower insetkinti! the particularly large sea which crew activate the inflatable ba lifted the bow so high that the crew soon realised that she would not come back down upright. Mike Judge All of the crew were unhurt and damage was said later: 'One minute we were ten feet up in relatively minor, although the lifeboat was withdrawn the air and the next we were three or four feet immediately and a relief boat was on the way to the underwater.' station within hours. Unfortunately the lifeboat was so close to The dinghies were escorted to safety by shore that although the crew activated the Sheerness's all-weather lifeboat and a helicopter righting bag there was not enough sea room to some half-an-hour later. right her properly and she - and the crew - were The whole incident had been captured on video washed up on the beach. and featured in several news broadcasts. IHigh speed tow fortrimaran
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The Royal Bank of Scotland pic Registered Office 36 St Andrew Square. Edinburgh EH2 2YB Postcode Phone No. Registered in Scotland no 90312 In the beginning... The oak of the RNLI grew from the acorn of Sir William Hillary's famous Appeal to the British Nation in 1823. In the nature of nineteenth century writings the Appeal is too fulsome to reproduce in its entirety. Extracts however give the flavour of this historic document..
( "y^ or many years, and in various Though many individuals have First, The pres- ^T countries, the melancholy and employed their time, their attention, and ervation of human life fatal shipwrecks which I have often exposed their personal safety for from shipwreck; which witnessed, have excited a this object, yet nearly the whole of the should always be powerful interest in my mind for the most extensive and dangerous parts of considered as the first situation of those who are exposed to this our coasts are left without any means great and permanent awful calamity; but the idea of the having been adopted, any precautions object of the Institution. advantages which would result from the taken, for rendering assistance to vessels Secondly, Assistance establishment of a national institution, for in distress; and, winter after winter, we to vessels in distress, which often the preservation of human life from the have the most afflicting details of the immediately connects itself with the perils of the sea, first suggested itself to most disastrous consequences attendant safety of the crews. me during my residence on a part of the on this lamentable apathy to human Thirdly, The preservation of the coast, often exposed to the most misery - an awful destruction of life, on vessels and property, when not so distressing scenes of misery, and where almost every shore which surrounds the immediately connected with the lives of the dreadful storms of the last autumn British dominions: acts have even people, or after the crews and passengers prevailed with unusual violence. sometimes been perpetrated at which shall already have been rescued. On some occasions, it has been my humanity shudders, and which have Fourthly, The prevention of plunder lot to witness the loss of many valuable caused other nations to cast reproach and and depredations in case of shipwreck. lives, under circumstances where, had opprobrium on the British name. Fifthly, The succour and support of there been establishments already formed But individual efforts, however those persons who may be rescued; the for affording prompt relief, and meritorious in themselves, are unequal promptly obtaining medical aid, food, encouragement given to those who might to produce all the benefits, or remedy all clothing, and shelter, for those whose volunteer on such a cause, in all the evils, attendant on one of the most destitute situation may require such probability the greater part would have inevitable of perils to which human relief, with the means to forward them to been rescued from destruction. At other nature is exposed, and which is most their homes, friends or countries. The times I have seen the noblest instances of likely to fall upon those who are in the people and vessels of every nation, self-devotion; men have saved the lives very rime of manhood, and in the whether in peace or war, to be equally of their fellow-creatures at the peril of discharge of the most active and objects of this Institution; and the efforts their own, without a prospect of reward important duties of life. From the to be made and the recompenses to be if successful, and with the certainty that calamity of shipwreck no one can say that given for their rescue, to be in all cases their families would be left destitute if he may at all times remain free; and whilst the same as those for British subjects and they perished. he is now only providing for the safety British vessels. From these considerations I have of others, a day may come which will Sixthly, The bestowing of suitable been induced to wish, that the results of render the cause his own... rewards on those who rescue the lives of the experience, talent, and genius of the others from shipwreck, or those who men of science, should be united in the ... a national institution should be assist vessels in distress; and the formation of one great Institution, which formed... important to humanity, and establishment of a provision for the would in itself embrace every possible beneficial to the naval and commercial destitute widows or families of the brave means for the preservation of life from interests of the United Empire; having for men who unhappily lose their lives in the hazards of shipwreck. its objects, such meritorious attempts... 14 From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation... he RNLI started life in the City of doubled in this time and, once London, then the financial centre of the again, larger offices were needed. A Tworld, and the first Head Office, occupied 65 years' lease was taken on 22 from 1824 to 1826, was 12 Austin Friars. The Charing Cross Road. The ground rent was £385 and the lease of £10,000 was office was moved to 18 Austin Friars in 1826 and Main photograph: remained there until 1836 when it was considered moderate for such premises. It was RNLI Head Office in transferred to the first floor of number 20. In felt that the offices were much better '... for the Poole, Dorset. 1846 a further move was made to the second great national object of the Institution and far Above: Behveen 1904 floor of 8 Great Winchester Street, just around more sanitary and suitable for the officers and and 19.31 Headquarters were situated in Charing the corner from Austin Friars. staff. The Committee of Management was also Cross Road, London. well aware that such a prominent site would afford greater publicity to the RNLI. In 1931, again because of lack of space and due to increasing work, the RNLI moved to 42-44 Grosvenor Gardens and this was to be its last move within London. The move out of London came largely as a result of a report in 1971 by P A Management Consultants who were asked to review the organisation of the Left: Gatehouse RNLI. The Committee of Management entrance to Poole Depot. Below: Head Office in endorsed their recommendation that the Grosvenor Gardens. Tile 1851 was a year of much reorganisation for Head Office and Depot should be amalgamated picture was taken in 1953 the RNLI, which had been without a president and situated in the provinces. The site would during the Queen's since 1828. The fourth Duke of Northumberland need water frontage and would have to be Coronation celebrations. took on this office in 1851 and launched his within two hours rail journey of London. famous competition for an efficient lifeboat In October 1972, two adjoining design. Richard Lewis had recently been elected sites had been found in Poole and, secretary, and it was shortly afterwards that in 1973, the gradual transfer of staff reliable records began to be kept. Also in 1851, to temporary accommodation the offices moved from the City to the Charing began. The transfer was effectively Cross district, where the Headquarters stayed in completed by February 1974 and on different buildings for some 80 years. 30 October 1974 the then Chairman Premises were taken at 20 John Street, of the Institution, Commander Adelphi, but after only 3 years, the Committee Swarm, laid the foundation stone of of Management found 'more commodious a new Head Office building. A premises' at 14 John Street, almost opposite, and stainless steel capsule containing the move took place in 1855. It was to be the historic documents, photographs longest occupied Head Office in the RNLI's and examples of the Institution's history and, although it was the expiry of the colours were placed under the lease which caused the next change of premises, stone. The formal opening of the the building which was considered roomy in new headquarters was undertaken 1854, was hardly adequate 50 years later. by HRH The Duke of Kent on 6 The work of the Institution had more than May 1976.«
IE The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager, Howard Richings, looks at the way that lifeboat houses have changed to reflect the changing demands made upon them
/Main Picture) Cromer was In the early years RNLI boathouses were very basic. title recognising the need for one of the pier-end slipway Resources were scarce and the emphasis was placed on the engineering design to lifeboat stations built in the complement architectural middle years, making use of boats themselves, with existing stores, warehouses and reinforced concrete and steel. simple sheds being pressed into use to house them. aesthetics. The structure was renewed in However as the Institution became established and the Douglass continued the use of 1998 in a matching style, (inset) Victorian era began the appearance of its boathouses traditional stone and slate, and underwent something of a revolution. the survival of many buildings The Victorian attitude to institutions, and to the bears witness to the durability of the materials and the importance of high quality public buildings, led to prudence of investing in relatively expensive buildings. considerable investment in solid, appropriately designed Clovelly and Ilfracombe boathouses, both built in 1893, are boathouses. The appointment of an Honorary Architect, still sound buildings and although Ilfracombe was recently Charles Cooke, in 1858 was a milestone in the development taken out of use Clovelly is being given a new lease of life of lifeboat house design. and should be back in use in time for the anniversary Cooke took up the appointment at 28 and worked for the celebrations. Institution until his death in 1888. More than 200 boathouses are attributed either directly to him, or to the continued The Middle Years influence of his designs during the remaining years of the From about 1910 onwards increasing use was made of 19th century. In addition to his RNLI work Charles Cooke reinforced concrete and steel, and over the next 20 years a also undertook ecclesiastical commissions - and a number of number of major slipway stations were built, forming the solidly-built masonry boathouses with their distinctly another distinctive group of immediately identifiable lifeboat chapel-like appearances are still to be seen today. A few are houses. Their construction in some of the most exposed still in use as RNLI boathouses, while a number have been locations around our coast was a considerable engineering converted for private use. achievement, and many became well-known landmarks: Cooke's first commission was a design for a boathouse in Cromer and Mumbles at the end of their piers; Tenby, Colombo, in what was then Ceylon. This building had broad Barrow and Bembridge with their own access bridges and overhanging eaves, possibly to provide protection from the the similar, but later buildings at The Lizard and Padstow. tropical sun, and some of his subsequent designs, like the The coming of motorised lifeboats from the 1930s boathouse at Walmer in Kent, have similar details. onwards saw a reduction in the number of lifeboat stations, Following Cooke's death in 1888 W. T. Douglass was as the powered boats were able to go against tide and wind appointed as Engineer and Architect to the Institution - the reducing the number of places at which lifeboats were needed. With the exception of new stations at The Lizard and Padstow the middle years of the current century saw little new building. The financial resources of the Institution were limited and what was available was directed into repair and maintenance. Durable though steel and concrete were the slipway structures of the 1920s required major repair works after 30 years exposure to seawater and storms. Many stations were extensively repaired in the 1950s and this extended their lives into the 1990s.
Walmer's boathouse was designed by the RNLI's first Honorary Architect. Charles Cooke. Appointed in 1858 Cooke was influenced by a building he had designed for Colombo (then Ceylon) with overhanging eaves to give protection from the tropical sun.
16 Hastings was one station which needed a new boathouse (left) with the advent of the Mersey class • as a temporary measure the floor of the old building had been lowered (below) so that the lifeboat would fit inside!
Designs not Modern Times only had to be The last decade has seen a major building programme to durable and meet the demands of an expanding and more sophisticated functional but also had to satisfy the aspirations of fleet, and also the need to provide modern facilities for communities. A century-and-a-half after Cooke took up his crews. The seeds of this programme were sown in the mid- honorary appointment the emphasis swung back again to 1960s with the introduction of the first inshore lifeboats. This architecturally designed boathouses, but still with a need for new breed reversed the decline in the number of stations and strong civil engineering support. saw the reopening of stations closed in the 1920s and '30s. The Mersey boathouses saw a wide range of styles with a At first they were housed in common theme of high simple prefabricated quality. The tried and tested buildings, and in many ways 'The Victorian attitude to stone and slate were the first 25 years of inshore employed at St Ives while a lifeboats was a reflection of the institutions, and to the modern contemporary design first 25 years of the RNLI itself. using stainless steel houses The limited funds were spent importance of high quality Aldeburgh's lifeboat. on the lifeboats, and the shore Where planning policies facilities were very basic. public buildings, led to allowed more utilitarian An improved financial designs were employed, but position in the 1980s and a considerable investment in still with the emphasis on major modernisation good facilities, long life and programme for the all-weather solid, appropriately low maintenance. fleet, led to a building The real revolution, programme so that the new designed boathouscs' however, has been in the lifeboats could be housed housing of inshore lifeboats. properly and their volunteer The early utilitarian crews provided with modern facilities. buildings had a limited life, and the rapid expansion of the In 1989 the first of the new class of fast carriage-launched Atlantic class produced a demand for many new boathouses, lifeboats went to Hastings, and although this boat was often in sensitive areas. squeezed into the existing boathouse this was not possible Examples can be seen all around the coast, with for most of the remaining 31 Mersey stations. Not only was traditional materials like granite and slate widely used in there a need for new, larger boathouses but the planning Cornwall and Wales, shiplap timber in East Anglia and local environment had changed radically since the originals were stone claddings in Scotland and Ireland. built. Several new boathouses which had to comply with stringent design criteria were built last year. In Cromer the new slipway station at the end of the listed Victorian pier had to face a 700-mile fetch to the Arctic, and also suit the prominent historic location. On the other side of the country a new boathouse and visitor centre in the shadow of Blackpool's famous tower had to match the Victorian theme set for that part of the promenade while still projecting the modern image of the lifeboat service. Any one who visits one of the many recently modernised stations will certainly appreciate the efforts made by the RNLI to invest in high quality buildings that will In sensitive areas like Lyme Regis in Dorset (above) new boathouses have to serve the lifeboats and their reflect the character of the area. In others a simpler, yet practical building such crews into the next as that at Clogher Head (right) is perfectly acceptable. millennium. Keith lli:ih hn, the ItNIJ's Senior Naval Arrhitn t. looks :it lifeboat development over the past 175 \v.\rs,
odern lifeboats are highly principle which was essentially the effort, so sailing performance was sophisticated craft with same as that used today - ensuring significantly better than for other types. Munique features which enable that the centre of gravity is kept low in They used Lukin's principles of large them to survive when lesser craft the boat while providing buoyancy high internal buoyancy tanks and were self would be in great difficulty. up to make the boat unstable when draining. They were however very wet Yet despite the huge differences inverted. in a seaway and few were built. between today's high-tech lifeboats and Elements from these two designers In 1887 G. L. Watson was those in use when the RNLI was provided the basis for Henry appointed as the RNLI's consulting founded 175 years ago many of the Greathead's Original, usually naval architect and the RNLI entered a basic principles had been established considered to be the first true lifeboat, new era. Watson held strong beliefs even before Sir William Hillary made his which entered service on the Tyne in that lifeboats should be as stable as historic Appeal. 1790. Various types of lifeboat were in possible, and that stability should not Indeed many of the basic ideas use around the country before be sacrificed to provide self-righting can be traced back to man's 1824, some making use of ability. Although his influence was to be earliest attempts to Lukin's ideas and other felt for the next 60 years self-righting build livesaving craft, simple rowing boats boats continued to be built, and in 1899 today's success used by local 237 of the Institutions lifeboats were resulting from the associations. still self-righters. advances in The founding of Mechanical propulsion and screw technology of the the RNLI in 1824 saw propellers arrived early in the new late 20th century. some standardisation, century and by 1910 G. L. Watson and Lionel Lukin's but lifeboats in the Co had designed the first of many 'Unimergible Boat' of main continued to be motorised lifeboats with their propellers 1785 introduced the small self-righting rowing recessed in protective tunnels. concept of sealed Lionel Lukin s boats By now lifeboats were becoming buoyancy chambers, cork 'Unimergible Boat' Unfortunately the self- larger, with open rowing boats being tendering and an iron righters had to be narrow to make them V superseded by ballast keel and predated the RNLI by work and were consequently rather Norfolk and / >w the semi 40 years. Other principles which stood 'tippy', earning them the name 'self ^Suffolk type/ N^ enclosed the test of time were the reduction of capsizers'. motor the internal volume able to hold water In East Anglia in particular the self- (by having large internal air tanks) and righters were unpopular and the returning the water to the sea through 'Norfolk and Suffolk' type evolved to large drains. Ironically when patented suit the local conditions. These the design was intended to make a large non-self-righters were heavy safer boat for taking ladies for trips on and stable, similar to the local the Thames! working boats, and needed a Shortly afterwards, in 1789, William large crew. To row one for any Wouldhave pioneered the self-righting distance required a great deal of 18 boat and self-righting ability was no longer thought necessary. A reversal of policy followed when R. A. Oakley became the RNLI's naval architect in 1947. Prompted by disasters in the late 1940s and early 1950s Oakley set about designing a lifeboat with maximum stability, but with self-righting ability - the first self- righter to be designed for almost 100 years. His 37ft and 48ft classes, first introduced in 1958, led the way to seaworthy, self-righting lifeboats. To do this the inherently self-righting form developed by Wouldhave had to be abandoned. Oakley avoided the narrow beam and consequent lack of initial stability by devising a righting system that made use of the transfer of water ballast. To make a boat self-righting keep the centre of gravity low and centre of buoyancy high, so that she is unstable when upside down - a principle which was established by William Wouldhave in 1789 and still Although Oakley's water transfer holds true on today's Trents. system was effective and automatic it was somewhat complex and allowed inherently self-righting as a result of A similar concept is now being some water to remain inside the vessel their watertight, buoyant developed into the next generation of - which could be detrimental to the superstructures, a feature of all recent fast slipway boat, eventually to replace structure of a wooden RNLI all-weather lifeboats the Tynes. boat. The Mersey class, The new Fast Slipway Boat (FSB2) Now that it was a fast carriage- forms part of the lifeboat service's no longer necessary launched lifeboat, plans for the next millennium, plans to have a narrow boat arrived in 1988. She which were largely the result of an in order to self-right also had a tunnel hull, overall review under the heading of Oakley's designs held sway Zetland, the oldest survmg but the real innovation lay in 'Lifeboats 2000'. until the advent of the new lifeboat is of the her construction. Following This programme took a long hard generation of 'fast' lifeboats Greathead type and was the first few aluminium look at what kinds of lifeboat and built in 1800 in the 1960s. boats a modern material equipment would be needed in the A demonstration of an American called fibre reinforced composite (FRO foreseeable future, and is likely to lead 44ft lifeboat in 1963 resulted in its was adopted and each of the FRC to some new types of lifeboat. introduction, with a few modifications, internal sections was fitted out before So, although today's Severns and as the RNLI's Waveney class. This was being bonded into the hull. The Mersey Trents would be unrecognisable to the the Institution's first 'fast' lifeboat, and was the first class of modular pioneers of lifeboat design the early marked a return to the inherently self- construction lifeboats. innovators at least have the satisfaction righting principles of Wouldhave almost The RNLI's latest designs, the Trent of knowing that the principles they 200 years before. and the Severn classes also adopted established still hold good. By now technology and materials the same method of construction. Both If Henry Greathead had access to had advanced sufficiently to allow the can achieve 25 knots and have turbocharged diesels, FRC hulls and superstructure to be made watertight advanced FRC hulls. The shape too is polycarbonate windows the Original enough to constitute the high-up new, being a 'soft' chine form to might have looked a little different... buoyancy required to self-right, promote planing while retaining the SEA INLETS OJ TRANSFER VALVE OPEN although the Waveney was still traditional RNLI propeller tunnel. \ ,DRAJN VALVE OPEN relatively narrow. IRightl R A. Oakley's system of automatically BALLAST TANK tIGHTING TANK The Waveney was followed by the transferring water ballast meant that self-righting FILLING Arun (1971), Thames (1973) and Tyne lifeboats could be made wider and more stable. (Below left! The bulk of the Norfolk and Suffolk (1982). Each boat brought its own type and the small internal volume are illustrated 'first': steel hulls for the Waveney and by the WTO-built James Leath at the lifeboat Thames, a glass reinforced plastic collection in Chatham Dockyard. INTAKE SHUT (Below right) Grace Darling, the last Liverpool (GRP) hull for the Arun and a fast tunnel class to be built tin 19541, and also on display at hull shape for the Tyne. Chatham, shows the typical shape of a non self- All these new designs were righting lifeboat of T*< ex...,, 7/. f-(-f-r. t*« . r C— y C—< P-^< £WM* EH1S 1H2
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Lanzarote lifesavers The great barometer hunt I shot these photographs in Playa Blancha, Lanzarote recently - the I read with interest details of the publication 'Rain only lifeboats I saw in the Canary Islands! You are welcome to use Later, Good' by Peter Collyer (The Lifeboat, Autumn them to illustrate foreign lifeboats. 1998). It was in 1860 that RNLI committee member Michael Osbaldston Admiral Robert Fitzroy, formerly captain of HMS South Woodford Beagle (Darwin Expedition), persuaded his colleagues London that The use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm two or three days before it actually takes place would considerably reduce the calamities now endured by our fishermen' (The Lifeboat, 1 October 1860). The Committee resolved to '...fix such instru- ments wherever found useful and practicable in suitable positions at the Society's lifeboat houses'. About 200 were placed at different locations be- tween 1860 and 1900. Each instrument manufac- tured by Negretti and Zambra was enclosed in a teak case and labelled with the name of the RNLI and individually numbered. There is in the library at Poole a hand written ledger drawn up in 1909 showing the Launch congratulations numbers and station allocations. May we, through The Lifeboat magazine, express our appreciation I have recently embarked on a research project to for a job well done with regard to the Overland launch at Lynmouth, locate as many as possible of these instruments still North Devon on 12 January. in existence. Early results have been encouraging. To Our congratulations and thanks go to all the organisers and partici- date 35 have been positively identified and confirmed pants in this marvellous event - we had a wonderful day. The weather to exist. played its part too in making the occasion so authentic - pouring rain May I ask for the help of readers who have any and near gale force winds! information on the subject of RNLI barometers to What a monumental task it must have been in 1899, and what an contact me. We hope in due course to make this interesting article it would make in The Lifeboat in your 175th year. information available to the RNLI for its records. Our best wishes and thanks for an interesting magazine. Colin Dingle, Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society Mr and Mrs C R Acland 42 Chestnut Avenue Rugby Esher Surrey Ed replies: No sooner said than done! See the News pages in this KT108JF issue for the full story. Tel (0181) 3983943
Letters from readers Cuttings from the past are always welcome. On sorting through my late father's papers, I came across these pictures which I thought may be of interest to readers. Jean Hughes Falmouth
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20 Journals -- any takers? RNLI period costume - I tend to hoard things but sometimes the sheer volume of the collection means that I have to any givers? dispose of a part of what I have amassed. This year I feel that it is time for me to shed a run of The Lifeboat- perhaps raising some cash for the RNLI in the process. My set tf A runs from 1976, issue number 457, to date and is complete. If anyone is interested, I would suggest they make arrangements to collect them from this address and hopefully make a donation to the lifeboats. Mr A G Newman, 30 Old Eaton Road, Rugeley, Staffordshire, I would like to find out whether anyone has old WS152EZ Back m 1976- crew's clothing that they would like to contribute to issue number 457 me - for display purposes in museums and at related The Lifeboat events. These could include: black oilskins and Sou'esters, old-style woollen RNLI jumpers, late 1800"s knitted Mainland Hayling headwear, footwear, Kapok lifejackets, orange I was born 72 years ago between the two old disused lifeboat crew's clothing, etc. stations on Hayling Island and, like Howard Richings (The Many thanks. Lifeboat Winter 1998/99 pp 18 and 19), regard Hayling as Maureen la Frenais, The Mainland'. RNLI Display and Visits Co-ordinator I suspect however that a few residents of North Island, Tel (01202) 663369 also known by some as Great Britain, might not agree. S J Pook, East Sussex
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21 •4 The Volunteer Spirit' £49.99 It's an RNLl Flag Day and all hands an deck'. This superb quality print has been reproduced from aspecially commissioned original painting to i clchrate the dedication ot our volunteers. Internationally acclaimed marine artist, Christopher Southcombe, drawing on his wide knowledge ot the RNLl, h.is managed to capture the -pint and selfless enthusiasm ot the lifeboat crew, their families and friend*, a* they rattle their collecting boxes on a husv (. !orm-h quayside raising funds tor the RNLI. To help von to net to know the individual, imaginary people depu ted in this lively scene, each print is accompanied by a leaflet which identities the position ot each character, shows how they relate to each other, and gives you a brief insight into their everyday lives. We hope that this extra dimension, combined with the meticulous detail contained within the painting, will add to \ our overall enjoyment ot this fascinating print. Print si:e 230 x 300mm (9" x 12"). Mahogany-effect frame si:e 410 x 460mm (16Kx 18H").
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Teamwork saves the day Teamwork, is a new RNLI educational and Civic Education and Teamwork covers a wide spectrum of resource pack which follows on from the very themes, topics and activities as it introduces the work of the RNLI to successful packs for 5 - 7 (Lifeboats) and 7 - 11-14/16 year olds for the first time. By using Teamwork, pupils will 11 year olds (Launch!). Last year RNLI find out about the RNLI's work and will meet some of the people who statistics showed that more than 1,500 support the organisation. The RNLI team extends much further than children and teenagers got into difficulties in the lifeboat crews. It includes support services, administrators and the the water and 350 children's lives were saved thousands of people who raise money to fund the organisation. by lifeboat crews. Together they form one of the biggest teams in the country, All three resources actively promote sea working together to save lives at sea. safety and teamwork and encourage young Teamwork people to support the lifeboat service. With- « Studies the concept of teamwork in the context of both the RNLI out them the RNLI would face an uncertain and pupils' own experi- future, as they are the volunteer lifeboat ence. crews and fundraisers of the future. » Introduces community The new resource is available for £6.00, and voluntary work and including p&p, and if you would like this, or increases young people's details about any other resources available for understanding of the young people then please contact Anne voluntary nature of the Millman, Youth Promotion Co-ordinator, at RNLI. RNLI HQ, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, * Considers why crew BH15 1HZ Tel: (01202) 663179. members volunteer for work that can be danger- 'Cries for help were heard from the bottom ous and examines pupils' of the cliffs. An injured man, a woman and a own motivation for tasks. 14 year old boy were trapped by the incoming « Discusses how teams tide.' are developed and man- What would you do? aged and relates them to The family was eventually rescued by a pupils' own experiences. combined operation which involved Lifeboats, « Investigates the reper- an RAF helicopter and a Coastguard cliff cussions of people's rescue team - an excellent example of actions and encourages a teamwork. sense of responsibility among young people. Teamwork is key to the RNLI's success » Reinforces messages and it is also a new educational resource from about the dangers of the the RNLI. The emphasis is on Personal, Social sea.
23 you're in a lifeboat crew on your way to help a stricken oil The RNLI, therefore, problem to solve: to provide a lifejacket which tanker. The lifeboat is being thrown about by mountainous seas crews would want to t all limes, even within the small area of a Lifeguard 'Compact'Survivors JAwith waves topping 9m in Force 9/10 winds. Three hours into the 1990s modern lifeboat whee rescue, you suddenly see a very large wave (13m) coming towards Lifejacket you. It hits the lifeboat with such force that it capsizes and you are TheRNLI's Operational The 'Compact' lifejacket is kept aboard lifeboats for survivors to flung into the icy, storm lashed sea.,. wear. It has a single compartment which is inflated by the mouth That's what happened to Robbie Maiden aboard the Hartlepool lifeboat of a Lifejacket: through the orai inflation valve, and is made from a bright red, hard wearing, nylon fabric, coated on the inside with synthetic as it went to the aid of the tanker Freja Svea, which ran aground off It must give confidence. rubber. Redcar in March 1993. As he stared death in the (ace he said "I waved The crews must be willing to wear It all times and shouted, but I was only a small dot in the waves. I'd never felt so LifeOoatman Robbie The lifejacket is fitted with a whistle, recovery loop and reflective Maiden It must be comfortable and not InjEe with the tape. alone." He thought he was doomed as his colleagues in The Scout, ©Nc/lhNews Pfctmes, function of the protective clothir. Newcastle which had righted itself for the second time, desperately zig-zagged It must be quick and simple to putt The lifejacket is an important part of a crew member's equipment. The following the area, searching for him. It must have minimum bulk so the^rer is not restricted when moving about rescues show just how essential the lifejacket is in saving lives, not only of humans, He was eventually saved by an the lifeboat performing tasks. but animals as well! RAF helicopter, who missed him It must be simple to use. the first time but then saw the light It must be of strong construction. It must adequately support the ci ^iember in the water, when wearing any on his lifejacket. Recovering from type of RNLI protective clothinc thout hindering their movements either ,°n 30 jujy ' \(lde(ldC ' threethree people e »„,,, his ordeal, Robbie admitted that to save his own life or the life o other. ,°n30 JWyYgsBM J99 " P °Ple ai his gear had kept him alive during It must enable the wearer to enter water without thought for their own what must have been the longest safety and provide sufficient bu ncy to support him adequately without 35 minutes of his life, any action on their part. It must be provided with a light, wt e and 'buddy line'. Tfis stricken oil tanker Fre/a Svea © Hartlepool Mail RNLI C&wsaver ALB Lifejacket At Crewsaver, the | irch and development team came up with a design -eryone SgE***** COIjdi,^ ******* *« The Beginning. which has no in-b loyancy in the materials themselves, so it is light and Robbie Maiden, and many more people like him, probably owe their lives to Captain Ross Ward, comfortable to i [er four years of development a new tifejacket was Inspector of Lifeboats for the RNLI. Over 140 years ago he began the first detailed tests to find issued to all-we ;boat stations over a five month period from November 1993. The lifejac two separate bags (stoles) which inflate, laid on top of out which were the best materials for making lifejackets. Crews had to row their lifeboat out to a 1 rescue and so the lifejackets needed to be light and flexible. each other. Within ! seconds of a crew member entering the water, a needle pierces a canistf rbon dioxide which automatically inflates the bag aiire nearest the body. I a buoyancy is needed the outer bag can also be inflated from a canister which is opened by pulling as oggle. Other feaiures of the lifejacket are a safety tt&ssssszs** 1850s Cork Lifejacket harness, two crutch straps, a SOLAS (Safety of LifeJ ) light, a whistle, reflective tape, a 'buddy line' and a The results of Ward's tests showed that the most suitable safety line. design was of narrow strips of cork, sewn and strung together to a strong linen or canvas belt so that the lifejacket moved with RNLI Crewsaver/ILBJperal Purpose the crew member's body. The cork lifejacket was bulky and hard -«af±Btf-i«"Jf to store, but provided good buoyancy (able to float), was very hard wearing and, importantly, was popular with the lifeboat (see separate i r^ss^ crews who used it. In 1856 the belts were on sale for six The Ramsey liteboat Cfew wealing l/ieir bulky cotk lile- Following the success of the ALB life]acket,' JLI and Crewsaver shillings (30p) each or five shillings (25p) each for have been developing a lifejacket for use in ir 3 lifeboats. These CREW SNATCHES LIFEBOAT COX'N FROM 10M WAVES quantities of a hundred or more. boat fitted to them new lifejackets have a safety harness with a i An hour after being swept overboard in a 65mph gale. Coxswain William which adjusts to suit any size of crew memt |hore crew Carter was back at the wheel steering his lifeboat through 10 m waves. He members are more likely to enter the water i t of their rescue was thrown into me sea and swept more than 185 metres away, as the 1904 Kapok Lifejacket work, so the lifejackets have a built-in buoya nee in the water, further buoyancy is provided through a mar plated bag. There Teesmouth lifeboat raced to the oii rig Neptune I off Raveriscar. Yorkshire. In 1904, a new lifejacket appeared consisting of a canvas-covered are two crutch straps, a safety line, SOLAS li< I 'buddy line and a A tiny red light in his lifejacket saved him from drowning in one of the pouch filled with a material called kapok (now mainly used to stuff Coxswain whistle, attached to the outer part of the wais [The new design, William Carter worst gales for ten years. The crew spotted the light - a standard piece of cushions and soft toys). having taken four years to develop, began to I sued to inshore emergency equipment - and turned back to rescue him... Kapok, a vegetable fibre from the silk cotton tree, native to parts of lifeboat stations in the early part of 1997. Indonesia, was an ideal material for lifejackets. It's hair-like follicles It will also be introduced for use in boarding I [at all-weather lifeboat OFTEN COPIED, NEVER EQUALLED (tubes) contain a natural oil, so kapok does not absorb water. It is stations, and to shore helpers to wear when I "ing a slipway lifeboat, Crewsaver has been established for nearly 40 years and are Drown in the also 3.5 times more buoyant than cork for a given weight, so a for example. registered as one of the World's leading designers and swim for cash kapok-filled lifejacket is much less bulky. manufacturers of personal safety equipment for marine Although there were some early design problems, and many applications. This experience is reflected in their range of A charity race in aid of the lifeboats lifeboatmen refused to wear them, with some saying they would Crewfit Li^cketfor Tractor Drivers lifejackets. buoyancy aids and safety equipment, all of which was won by a lifejacket salesman - rather drown!, the brown canvas-covered kapok jacket remained in called Will Drown. Tractor drivers i issued with their own lifejacket at are manufactured to the highest safety standards and Stephen Ctiyson, coxswain oi Margate People beiieved the winner was taking lifeboat station from 1905-1926. wearing use until the late 1960s. carriage-launched l [stations. A close fitting iifejacket is needed quality. them for a ride, but race co-ordinator Mr because the tractor < a Smal1 space and the driver may need to Crewsaver also produces ranges for other watersports with David Lynall said "It was no wind-up. I escape through the I «romthe trader. The lifejacket is a simple the Marlin range of wetsuits and the YAK range of clothing, I Beaufort Lifejacket 1970s 'off-the-shelf Crewfit1 buoyancy aids and safety equipment for canoeists. For know Will Drown. He works down at iji can be inflated by manual operation osport in Portsmouth for Crewsaver, In the earfy 1970s the RNLI introduced a lifejacket for all crew only. It has been ac r mght use by adding a light. further details and free catalogues from Crewsaver, Marlin and YAK please contact: one of the biggest makers of members, made by Beaufort. The wearer is supported by a single f lifejackets." Mumby Road. Gosport, inflation bag containing buoyant closed cell foam, inside a The event raised £5000 for the ALB ILB mtrDCUf CAWED Hampshire. P0121AQ. removable hard-wearing nylon cover. Inflating the bag provides the All three lifejack*, Jrh - and shore user have been RNLi. designeHp<5innfidd oorflBJL-r n°serl tor thfiitheir MRuseP wit withh th thep RNLI' RWI sI'c \\ l| Vif ftff JMV Bit Tel: 01705 528621 extra buoyancy needed to support another person. The lifejacket >thing and has a light, recovery loop, 'buddy line' and a safety line. protec protective head gear. Fax: 01705 510905 Although the Beaufort lifejacket is easier to work in and more supportive than kapok, it suffers one major drawback - it is very In a two year period from Janui into producing is ongoing. The quest for the ideal bulky. As a result of this, crew members find it difficult to move NBw)»wfflfetatfcren! complete with Beaulott 1 lifejacket. begun by Captain Ross Ward over 140 years ago, will continue for as long around the enclosed wheelhouse (unlike the open boats used in the been 712 incidents of crew men ^^9 the water past). you're in a lifeboat crew on your way to help a stricken oil The RNLI, therefore, problem to solve: to provide a lifejacket which tanker. The lifeboat is being thrown about by mountainous seas crews would want to t all limes, even within the small area of a Lifeguard 'Compact'Survivors JAwith waves topping 9m in Force 9/10 winds. Three hours into the 1990s modern lifeboat whee rescue, you suddenly see a very large wave (13m) coming towards Lifejacket you. It hits the lifeboat with such force that it capsizes and you are TheRNLI's Operational The 'Compact' lifejacket is kept aboard lifeboats for survivors to flung into the icy, storm lashed sea.,. wear. It has a single compartment which is inflated by the mouth That's what happened to Robbie Maiden aboard the Hartlepool lifeboat of a Lifejacket: through the orai inflation valve, and is made from a bright red, hard wearing, nylon fabric, coated on the inside with synthetic as it went to the aid of the tanker Freja Svea, which ran aground off It must give confidence. rubber. Redcar in March 1993. As he stared death in the (ace he said "I waved The crews must be willing to wear It all times and shouted, but I was only a small dot in the waves. I'd never felt so LifeOoatman Robbie The lifejacket is fitted with a whistle, recovery loop and reflective Maiden It must be comfortable and not InjEe with the tape. alone." He thought he was doomed as his colleagues in The Scout, ©Nc/lhNews Pfctmes, function of the protective clothir. Newcastle which had righted itself for the second time, desperately zig-zagged It must be quick and simple to putt The lifejacket is an important part of a crew member's equipment. The following the area, searching for him. It must have minimum bulk so the^rer is not restricted when moving about rescues show just how essential the lifejacket is in saving lives, not only of humans, He was eventually saved by an the lifeboat performing tasks. but animals as well! RAF helicopter, who missed him It must be simple to use. the first time but then saw the light It must be of strong construction. It must adequately support the ci ^iember in the water, when wearing any on his lifejacket. Recovering from type of RNLI protective clothinc thout hindering their movements either ,°n 30 jujy ' \(lde(ldC ' threethree people e »„,,, his ordeal, Robbie admitted that to save his own life or the life o other. ,°n30 JWyYgsBM J99 " P °Ple ai his gear had kept him alive during It must enable the wearer to enter water without thought for their own what must have been the longest safety and provide sufficient bu ncy to support him adequately without 35 minutes of his life, any action on their part. It must be provided with a light, wt e and 'buddy line'. Tfis stricken oil tanker Fre/a Svea © Hartlepool Mail RNLI C&wsaver ALB Lifejacket At Crewsaver, the | irch and development team came up with a design -eryone SgE***** COIjdi,^ ******* *« The Beginning. which has no in-b loyancy in the materials themselves, so it is light and Robbie Maiden, and many more people like him, probably owe their lives to Captain Ross Ward, comfortable to i [er four years of development a new tifejacket was Inspector of Lifeboats for the RNLI. Over 140 years ago he began the first detailed tests to find issued to all-we ;boat stations over a five month period from November 1993. The lifejac two separate bags (stoles) which inflate, laid on top of out which were the best materials for making lifejackets. Crews had to row their lifeboat out to a 1 rescue and so the lifejackets needed to be light and flexible. each other. Within ! seconds of a crew member entering the water, a needle pierces a canistf rbon dioxide which automatically inflates the bag aiire nearest the body. I a buoyancy is needed the outer bag can also be inflated from a canister which is opened by pulling as oggle. Other feaiures of the lifejacket are a safety tt&ssssszs** 1850s Cork Lifejacket harness, two crutch straps, a SOLAS (Safety of LifeJ ) light, a whistle, reflective tape, a 'buddy line' and a The results of Ward's tests showed that the most suitable safety line. design was of narrow strips of cork, sewn and strung together to a strong linen or canvas belt so that the lifejacket moved with RNLI Crewsaver/ILBJperal Purpose the crew member's body. The cork lifejacket was bulky and hard -«af±Btf-i«"Jf to store, but provided good buoyancy (able to float), was very hard wearing and, importantly, was popular with the lifeboat (see separate i r^ss^ crews who used it. In 1856 the belts were on sale for six The Ramsey liteboat Cfew wealing l/ieir bulky cotk lile- Following the success of the ALB life]acket,' JLI and Crewsaver shillings (30p) each or five shillings (25p) each for have been developing a lifejacket for use in ir 3 lifeboats. These CREW SNATCHES LIFEBOAT COX'N FROM 10M WAVES quantities of a hundred or more. boat fitted to them new lifejackets have a safety harness with a i An hour after being swept overboard in a 65mph gale. Coxswain William which adjusts to suit any size of crew memt |hore crew Carter was back at the wheel steering his lifeboat through 10 m waves. He members are more likely to enter the water i t of their rescue was thrown into me sea and swept more than 185 metres away, as the 1904 Kapok Lifejacket work, so the lifejackets have a built-in buoya nee in the water, further buoyancy is provided through a mar plated bag. There Teesmouth lifeboat raced to the oii rig Neptune I off Raveriscar. Yorkshire. In 1904, a new lifejacket appeared consisting of a canvas-covered are two crutch straps, a safety line, SOLAS li< I 'buddy line and a A tiny red light in his lifejacket saved him from drowning in one of the pouch filled with a material called kapok (now mainly used to stuff Coxswain whistle, attached to the outer part of the wais [The new design, William Carter worst gales for ten years. The crew spotted the light - a standard piece of cushions and soft toys). having taken four years to develop, began to I sued to inshore emergency equipment - and turned back to rescue him... Kapok, a vegetable fibre from the silk cotton tree, native to parts of lifeboat stations in the early part of 1997. Indonesia, was an ideal material for lifejackets. It's hair-like follicles It will also be introduced for use in boarding I [at all-weather lifeboat OFTEN COPIED, NEVER EQUALLED (tubes) contain a natural oil, so kapok does not absorb water. It is stations, and to shore helpers to wear when I "ing a slipway lifeboat, Crewsaver has been established for nearly 40 years and are Drown in the also 3.5 times more buoyant than cork for a given weight, so a for example. registered as one of the World's leading designers and swim for cash kapok-filled lifejacket is much less bulky. manufacturers of personal safety equipment for marine Although there were some early design problems, and many applications. This experience is reflected in their range of A charity race in aid of the lifeboats lifeboatmen refused to wear them, with some saying they would Crewfit Li^cketfor Tractor Drivers lifejackets. buoyancy aids and safety equipment, all of which was won by a lifejacket salesman - rather drown!, the brown canvas-covered kapok jacket remained in called Will Drown. Tractor drivers i issued with their own lifejacket at are manufactured to the highest safety standards and Stephen Ctiyson, coxswain oi Margate People beiieved the winner was taking lifeboat station from 1905-1926. wearing use until the late 1960s. carriage-launched l [stations. A close fitting iifejacket is needed quality. them for a ride, but race co-ordinator Mr because the tractor < a Smal1 space and the driver may need to Crewsaver also produces ranges for other watersports with David Lynall said "It was no wind-up. I escape through the I «romthe trader. The lifejacket is a simple the Marlin range of wetsuits and the YAK range of clothing, I Beaufort Lifejacket 1970s 'off-the-shelf Crewfit1 buoyancy aids and safety equipment for canoeists. For know Will Drown. He works down at iji can be inflated by manual operation osport in Portsmouth for Crewsaver, In the earfy 1970s the RNLI introduced a lifejacket for all crew only. It has been ac r mght use by adding a light. further details and free catalogues from Crewsaver, Marlin and YAK please contact: one of the biggest makers of members, made by Beaufort. The wearer is supported by a single f lifejackets." Mumby Road. Gosport, inflation bag containing buoyant closed cell foam, inside a The event raised £5000 for the ALB ILB mtrDCUf CAWED Hampshire. P0121AQ. removable hard-wearing nylon cover. Inflating the bag provides the All three lifejack*, Jrh - and shore user have been RNLi. designeHp<5innfidd oorflBJL-r n°serl tor thfiitheir MRuseP wit withh th thep RNLI' RWI sI'c \\ l| Vif ftff JMV Bit Tel: 01705 528621 extra buoyancy needed to support another person. The lifejacket >thing and has a light, recovery loop, 'buddy line' and a safety line. protec protective head gear. Fax: 01705 510905 Although the Beaufort lifejacket is easier to work in and more supportive than kapok, it suffers one major drawback - it is very In a two year period from Janui into producing is ongoing. The quest for the ideal bulky. As a result of this, crew members find it difficult to move NBw)»wfflfetatfcren! complete with Beaulott 1 lifejacket. begun by Captain Ross Ward over 140 years ago, will continue for as long around the enclosed wheelhouse (unlike the open boats used in the been 712 incidents of crew men ^^9 the water past). High Seas More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air. St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man. The shallow shelving foreshore can be rough in on- shore winds - and the station's Atlantic usually has to make a bow-first net recovery. The sandy beach beyond the slipway can shift to expose rocky patches and a regular watch is kept with a board in the boathouse showing the latest situation. Main photo (left) Ref 651182 Detailed photo (below) Ref 651187
St Bees - North Division
Kilkeel's lifeboat is the only davit-launched Atlantic in Northern Ireland, and is housed in a 1986-built boathouse on a site still known to the locals as Annies Cottage, after a long-gone building which once stood there. The main photo looks south east along the South Pier towards an entrance which can be shallow at spring low water and tricky when a strong south easterly is blowing. The small building just behind the new boathouse in the main photo is the old boathouse, used when Kilkeel operated a D class inflatable. Main photo (leftI Ref 671085 Detailed photo (above) Ref 671096 Kilkeel - Ireland Division Hoylake's distinctive 1803-built boathouse (the larger, left hand building of the two in the close-up below) faces almost north on the town's Promenade-with water deep enough for the station's Mersey sometimes 1'/4 miles away across the sandy foreshore! The smaller of the two buildings is the tractor house, with the crew room above and a recent extension to the rear.
Main photo Heft) Ref 645178 Detailed photo (below) Ref 645169
Hoylake -- West Division
The boathouse for Aberdovey's Atlantic shares a building with the Dovey Yacht Club, its slip running down towards the jetty once used by commercial vessels in the harbour's heyday. The River Dovey runs out to the sea to the left in the main photo, and the expanse of sand in the estuary can be glimpsed in this photo taken at about half tide. There is plenty of water for the Atlantic at the bottom of the slip - so much so that at low water the trailer would Aberdovey -- West Division drop into deep water and the lifeboat is launched from the sand alongside it! Main photo (leftI Ref 653156 Detailed photo (above) Ret 653520
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Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations
aluminium (with the zero) and Lifeboat Numbers... some are fibre reinforced There is a logic to the numbers seen on composite (without the zero). the side of lifeboats, and once you've All-weather lifeboats also cracked the code the combination can have another number, called tell you quite a lot about the boat. the Official Number, which is The numbers are the lifeboat's simply a number issued in Operational Number, and the chronological order of building, characters before the dash give the irrespective of class or material. This class and those after it denote both the number, prefixed by 'ON', is chronological number within the class used mainly by the RNLI's and can also provide a clue to the operational and technical construction material. departments to track boat Lifeboats up to and including the movements and maintenance. Arun class were built using imperial Inshore lifeboats also carry measurements, and the first two an Operational Number - a characters are the length of the boat in single letter followed by a feet. Hence Aruns begin with either 52- dash and a three-digit number. or 54-, Tynes with 47-, Waveneys with The letter indicates the 44- and Bredes with 33- . class and the number is once again a From the Mersey onwards metric chronological number within units were used, and the length is given the class. in metres. Hence Mersey numbers Some early inshore begin with 12-, Trents with 14- and lifeboats were conventional Severns with 17-. rigid boats and were allocated Following the dash is the individual, class A. The A class is now two digit number within the class - extinct, the last being issued in chronological order of building. withdrawn from Poole lifeboat Hence 14-01 was the first Trent, 14-02 station in 1995. the second and so on. They were followed by rigid inflatables (Lower left) 14-10 indicates a 14m long lifeboat (and But wait, what of those lifeboats with designated B class - first Atlantic 21s and therefore a Trent class), and three digits after the dash? Well, here is then Atlantic 75s. There is a way to tell the tenth of that class to be built. your clue to the construction material. them apart - any B class with a 700-plus The extra digit will always be a zero and number is a 75! (Top) 12-009 indicates a 12m long lifeboat (and always follow the dash - hence Tyne The smaller inflatables were allocated therefore a Mersey), the 47-001 or 47-012 and Mersey 12-001. classes C and D, a C having twin engines leading zero after the dash indicates aluminium or steel The leading zero indicates either and the slightly smaller D a single. Both are (aluminium in the case of steel or aluminium construction. All numbered chronologically and have Merseysi and the W shows that she is the ninth Tynes progressed through various modifications of the class to be built. are steel over the years. (Above middle) 0-387 and have • As an aside a lifeboat uses her indicates a D class inshore three- Operational Number as a radio call sign lifeboat (and therefore a 16ft single engined digit when on passage (perhaps to another inflatable), the 387th to be suffixes station, on trials or when on her way for built. but some maintenance). Hence 'Salcombe Lifeboat', (Above bottom) 0-733 - a B Merseys when on station becomes 'Lifeboat Forty- class (and therefore an Atlantic) with the 700-plus seven-zero-two-two' when on passage. number indicating a '75' rather than a '2T. shelf
Lifeboat station histories
The History of the Penmon and deep water. The History of the Point of Air Beaumaris Lifeboats In 1967 Beamauris saw one of the Lifeboats by Jeff Morris early 'Inshore Rescue Boats' stationed in by Jeff Morris published by the author a new building near the promenade and published by the author The northern end of close to the pier - the boat being one of The lifeboats which served the area to OF THE the south side of the Dee estuary are the Menai Straits is PENMON the four funded by the first appeal by the one of the areas ANO television programme 'Blue Peter'. another example of the changing needs BEAUMARIS where changing LIFEBOATS In 1976 the small inflatable was re- of the lifeboat service. times and use of the placed by a new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable From 1826 to 1923 lifeboats operated sea has led to consid- (again funded by a 'Blue Peter' appeal) from various stations around the Point of erable changes in with a new boathouse provided close to Air, some under the auspices of the then both the position and Beaumaris pier for the larger boat. Liverpool Docks Trustees and later that of type of lifeboat and The inshore lifeboats operated in con- the RNLI. lifeboat station. junction with a series of all-weather boats With declining river traffic and difficul- Jeff Morris, the until 1991 when, with the arrival of a fast ties in raising a crew in the isolated spot Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthu- Mersey at Llandudno to the east and a the station was closed by the RNLI in the siasts Society has done his usual excel- Tyne already serving at Moelfre to the early 1920s. lent job in researching the history of life- west, it was decided to withdraw the all Interestingly very little had been boats in the area .looking at both the early -weather boat from Beaumaris. known about the pre-RNLI lifeboats until stations and the current Atlantic 21 sta- Since then the station's Atlantic has recently as all of the records had been lost tion now at Beaumaris. operated alone, its rapid response being when Liverpool was heavily bombed in The Penmon station was first estab- ideal for the area and the type of vessel the second World War and the Mersey lished close to the north-east corner of now using the Straits. Docks and Harbour Board's premises (suc- Anglesey in 1830 by an independent or- As usual Jeff Morris's book is a com- cessors to the Liverpool Docks Trustees) ganisation called the Anglesey Lif esaving prehensive account of the lifeboat goings was destroyed. Association which moved its lifeboat from -on in the area, illustrated by period pho- However during 1996 an American Holyhead to Penmon for trials. tos and describing some of the more couple who were the descendants of The Association came under the interesting services carried out over the Benjamin Evans, the coxswain in the late RNLI's wing in 1855 and later, with the years. 1800s, presented the RNLI with a hand- advent of motor lifeboats, it was decided The History of The Penmom and written log which recorded every event at to move the station further up the straits Beaumaris Lifeboats is available from the the stations from 1852 to 1894! towards Beaumaris, taking that name author at 14 Medina Road, Foleshill, Cov- Today the area still has lifeboat cover and operating from a new slipway - built entry CV6 5JB at £3.50, including post- - but in the form of an itinerant D class in 1914 at the end of a long catwalk out to age and packing. which although based at Flint makes use of a Land Rover and trailer to use a variety 'For Those in Peril...' -for TlMM In f*rtl...." of launching sites in the area. DM M«ry ot fffr»Cfll»ti'» The books reviewed here are The Story of llf racombe's NOT available from the RNLI. The History of the Point of Air Life- Lifeboats Please see either the address boats can be obtained from Jeff Morris at given in the text or contact a 14 Medina Road, Foleshill, Coventry CV6 by Bob Thompson good bookseller quoting the published by the author author, full title and ISBN 5JB at £2.50 including postage and Bob Thompson, the RNLI packing. Assistant Mechanic at llfracombe, has made a fine job of this concise 48-page history of the lifeboats and their work around this For the yachtsman North Devon harbour. llfracombe's lifeboat history runs from The RYA Book of Diesel Engines the first boat in 1828, through absorption This excellent volume is aimed at the by Tim Bartlett by the RNLI in 1866 to today's Mersey boat owner - not the trained mechanic — published by Adlard Coles Nautical class and D class inshore lifeboat, and and strikes just the right note in its simple at £10.99 Bob's book covers all of these aspects. explanations of the more complex parts ISBN 0-7136-4847-3 Thanks to local sponsorship all of the of this potentially reliable source of power. 'Mechanical Failure' is one of the biggest proceeds from the sale of the book go to Any one who reads and understands this single causes of lifeboat call-out (even to llfracombe Lifeboat Guild. Copies can be book-and of course puts that knowledge sailing vessels!) so a healthy knowledge obtained from The Lifeboat House, Broad to practical use - should feel much more of the care and feeding of your diesel Street, llfracombe, Devon for £2.50 plus confident about his or her engines and engine can only be a good thing. 50p postage and packing. hopefully less reliant on lifeboats!
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The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 1998. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension. '(CY denotes coxswain.
Abersoch: E DOwen 12.5 Exmouth: K R Graham 18.5 FG Hughes 12 Years Years Years; E D Kennedy 25 Years Years (C); G C Ingram 18.5 Montrose: J J Cowley 16 Years; Silloth: J M Graham 19 Years (Formerly Lytham St Annes) Years; D J Richards 12.5 Years; AR A Jack 10.5 Years Skegness: M Clark 22.5 Years Aberystwyth: E D Harris 20 D J Stuart 11 Years Mudeford: M M Minns 10 Years Skerries: M O'toole 16.5 Years Years; E D James 15.5 Years Filey: C Haddington 21 Years New Brighton: B M Aves 20.5 Southend On Sea: P D Gilson Aldeburgh: E D Cook 17.5 Years Filey G V Taylor 35 Years (C) Years; R N Barrass 23 Years; B 27 Years Angle: E D Ward 23 Years Fishguard: K Bean 33 Years W Downing 13 Years; J A St Abbs: J Crowe 11.5 Years; L Anstruther: E D Small 45 Years: Fleetwood W I Fairclough 20 Jackson 15 Years Gibbons 10 Years (Formerly ED Stewart 14 Years Years (C) Newcastle: F L Mooney 18 Dungeness) Aran Islands: E D Kelly 12 Years Flint: THJacklin 19.5 Years; D Years St Catherine: N S Sweeny 21.5 Arbroath: E D Cargill 14.5 Years G Moore 24 Years North Berwick: I F Mcminn 22.5 Years Arklow: E D English 26.5 Years; Hartlepool: E Reeve 19.5 Years Years St Davids: D J Bateman 35 EDMckay 19.5 Years Hastings: S J Barrow 24 Years; Oban: J P Maclean 25.5 Years Years Bangor: E D Flood 19.5 Years MJRBarrow31.5Years Padstow: ST Hughes 10.5 St Helier: J C Gray 20.5 Years Barmouth: E D Probert 17 Helensburgh: G M D Newlands Years (Formerly St Catherine) IS Years; E D Rushton 13 Years 17 Years Poole: J R Buckby 36.5 Years St Peter Port: J Webster 22 Barra Island: E D Macneil 11 Hoylake: C J Norman 11 Years; Port Isaac: A D Walton 21 Years Years Years; E D Jackson 12.5 Years R A Whiteley 48 Years (For- Portaferry: J J Devlin 15 Years Stromness: J M Flett 39 Years Barrow: F Keenan 24.5 Years merly West Kirby) Porthcawl: M H Evans 15 Years; (0 Barry Dock: PN Freeman 13 Hunstanton: M Wallace 17 P L Missen 24 Years The Lizard: I A Hill 47 Years Years Years Porthdinllaen: KB Jones 13 The Mumbles: R Griffiths 9 Beaumaris: B J Roberts 20 Kippford: J J Johnstone 30 Years Years Years Years Portpatrick: C Atkinson 20.5 Thurso: D C Mackenzie 10 Blyth: D T Coussons 21.5 Years; Kirkcudbright: D J Henry 20.5 Years Years I Woodhouse 17 Years Years Portrush: D K Chambers 20 Tighnabruaich: G I Christie 13.5 Broughty Ferry: W A Pyke 31 Largs: J W Strachan 23 Years Years (C) Years Years Lerwick: I H Campbell 12 Years Red Bay: JFarrell 12.5 Years Torbay: R N Foster 16 Years; R Burry Port: H Owen 24.5 Years Little & Broad Haven: B R Dilly Redcar: D A Cammish 15 Years Morphett 10 Years Cardigan: M G Faulkner 10 13.5 Years RhykT Dunn 12.5 Years; G Tynemouth: L P Abernethy 11 Years Littlehampton: T T Edwards Hughes 48.5 Years Years Clogher Head: P F Sharkey 32.5 20.5 Years; C Shanks 12.5 Rosslare: Harbour J E F Walton & Frinton: J G Berry 39 Years (0 Years Wickham 33.5 Years Years Cramer: R E Brownsell 12.5 Lowestoft: T J Arlow 13 Years; Rye Harbour: M S Haffenden 12 WestKirby:ASDransfield12.5 Years DJ Barnard 12 Years Years; J E Robus 17.5 Years Years; M R Jones 21 Years Donagadee: W J M Bennett Lyme Regis: B R Miller 31 Selsey: M J Grant 38 Years (C); Weston-Super-Mare: C F Nurse 30.5 Years Years; J C Ennals 18.5 Years D E Lawrence 34 Years 14 Years Dun Laoghaire: F Kennedy 12 (Formerly St Marys's) Sennen Cove: F Tregear 40 Whitstable: M A Judge 34.5 Years Lytham St Annes: W H Years Years Dunmore East: S Kearns 34 Hamblen 10 Years; R A Wignall Sheerness: R T J Rogers 15 Wicklow: T Jacob 15 Years Years 17 Years Years; C J Washford 25.5 Years Youghal: R Hickey 35 Years Eastbourne: B AChessell 13 Margate: P J Manning 22 Years Shoreham Harbour: R K Grant Years; A M Huggett 12.5 Years Moelfre: A Dennis 22 Years (C); 33 Years; D Wainwright 30
No, this isn't an overland launch re-enactment, this is Wells' Mersey class life- boat, Dons M Mann of Ampthill, being taken overland for refit last July. Malcolm Elvy's rig is often loaded with lifeboats and he always seem to find a way through the trickiest of spots. The picture was taken in Lymington and as usual parked cars made manoeuvring difficult. A Police escort spent some time trying to get some vehicles shifted but Malcom wriggled through with just inches to spare! branch. Mr Wilkinson was Obituaries elected to the committee in 1950, honorary secretary from 1958 to 1987 and chairman in 1988. He was made an With regret we report the honoray life governor in 1987 following deaths: and was awarded the Binocu- lars in 1969 and the Gold badge August 1998 in 1983. Mr John Malcolm Freswick December 1998 (Jackie) Groat MBE JP DL Reginald Frederick Bailey, Longhope president and ex- former Walmer second honorary secretary. Jackie was coxswain. Reginald was a crew appointed secretary in 1962 a member for over 13 years, position he was to hold for 33 bowman for over 4 years and years. He was awarded the the second coxswain for 3 years. MBE in 1985, the Gold badge in He was awarded a certificate of 1986 and bar to Gold badge in thanks in 1972. When it comes to medical insurance, Exeter Friendly 1993. Mrs P Whateley Bude Society never penalise you with higher premiums Mr John Robert (Jack) Leslie, chairman. Mrs Whateley ex-Longhope coxswain. Jack served the guild for over 40 simply because you get older. So the age you join was a crew member for many years, becoming secretary in is the age you stay*. Put another way, the sooner you years and was later appointed 1971 and treasurer in 1976. second coxswain. He was She was president of the join, the more it is possible to save. made coxswain in 1970 a station branch from 1982 until For full details of Exeter Care - one of the healthiest position he held until his her death. She was awarded retirement in 1988. Jack was the Silver badge in 1971, the schemes on the market - ring 0845 60 30 615 awarded the bronze medal in Gold badge in 1986 and bar to (at local rate) or complete and return the coupon to 1973. the Gold badge in 1997. November 1998 Arnold Storm, treasurer of find out how you could cut the cost of medical David (Dave) Cargill MBE, Staithes and Runswick branch insurance at the stroke of a pen. Arbroath ex-mechanic. Dave until 1998. Mr Storm served joined the RNLI as as mechanic the committee for many years Information is also available on www.exeterfriendly.co.uk in 1973 a position he held for prior to becoming treasurer in 22 years. He was awarded the 1979. 'Subscriptions do increose to reflect the rising incidence and costs of treatmen MBE in 1995. Mr Phil Parish, secretary of together with developments in medical technology. Mrs Margaret Joice, president Hitchin and district brnahc If you are under 80 years of age please telephone 0845 60 30 615 of Dereham and district branch since 1988 and committee from 1981, previously honorary member since 1985. He was I (local call rate) or complete this coupon for details. secretary of Fakeham brnahc awarded the Silver badge in I from 1955 to 1979. She was 1998. I Mr/Mrs/Ms awarded the bar to Gold badge January 1999 in 1998. Mr James Daniel, St Ives Address Mrs Elisabeth Hillmann Lake chairman. Mr Daniel joined the District branch chairman. station committee in 1953 and Elisabeth joined the branch as was chairman from 1956 until secretary in 1978 and was 1988. He was awarded the Tel: Ages of people to be covered chairman from 1983 until her Silver badge in 1980 and the retirement in 1994. She was Gold badge in 1984. Current insurer Renewal date awarded the Silver badge in Mrs Rita Rennie, member of EXETER 1989. the Usk committee from 1977 Mr J Norman Wilkinson DSC, to 1997. In 1995 she was Aft chairman of the Howth station awarded the Statuette. EXETER BEECH HILL HOUSE. WALNUT GARDENS. EXETER. DEVON. EX« 4OG. Frank picks the winners My diagnosis is... r- Mudeford lifeboat station sent this amusing photograph in to the offices On 29 January Frank Bruno and Sooty drew the winning tickets for the of The Lifeboat The vehicle is the RNLI's 84th lottery. The two celebrities were starring in Goldilocks and personal transport of Dr. Gerald the Three Bears at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton - Frank as the Rhodes, the station's honorary Grand Ringmaster and Sooty as himself! medical advisor - and as can be seen The lottery raised over £224,000 and first prize - a two-week Carib- from the picture he has a number bean cruise - went to Mr M Withall of Argyll. plate that truly suits! The cash prize winners were: However, we are sure that his £1,000 Mr D Jones, Poole opinions are less generalised and a bit £500 Mrs S Willday, Burton-on-Trent more sympathetic than the plate... £250 Mrs J Bell, Torquay £100 Mrs Haslam, Alwoodley; Mr Crossland, Lowdham; Mr Nethercliffe, Newquay; Mrs N Wilson, Winchester Prince pops in Pictured above is Coxswain Malcolm Gray of St Davids lifeboat with his youngest crew member/daughter, Gillian, following the rescue of a fishing vessel last May. During his tour of Wales last July, Prince Charles spent the day in Holy- There are a number of crews who head and at RAF Valley near Trearddur Bay. Following official duties and consist of more than one member of lunch the Prince made an informal walkabout amongst the public who the same family (and even the odd were enjoying a 'Families day' on the RAF sports field. husband and wife duo) but this is Charles spent some considerable time talking to local lifeboat guild perhaps a first for a dad and daughter. members and made a donation in their collection box. He then spent some time chatting to Trearddur Bay lifeboat crew about their work before he was whisked away by helicopter to his next engagement. 34 Rolling in money Fiona Kennedy, Eastleigh & District branch chairman, raised £1,200 from a sponsored 10 mile roller blade marathon in August. This was no mean feat for someone who described herself on her sponsor form as a 'grossly unfit 53 year old widow who last took regular exercise more than 30 years ago' and who had her first experience of roller blading just last April. So far her fellow committee members have resisted her pleas to join her in continued roller blading as a means to get fit! Titanic team up Gravesend branch teamed up with a local supermarket during the end of its fundraising week - raising £595 for lifeboat coffers. Branch chairman, Nicolette Jones, together with members of staff from Asda, who were promoting the launch of the Titanic video, dressed up as passengers and crew from the fated ship. Hover staff cash Staff at Dover-based Hoverspeed raised £2,742 for lifeboats during a prize raffle at the compa- ny's New Year's party. Hoverspeed's Captain Andre Le Goubin and cabin crew member, Claire Oliver, recently presented a cheque for the amount raised to Dover lifeboat coxswain Tony Hawkins and crew. Cruise with Santa During the four weekends before Christmas Captain Gordon Wilson, owner of the 60 seat cruiser Fantasia, ran 'Cruise with Santa' trips through Liverpool docks in aid of the RNLI. Fifty pence was donated from every fare raising £221 and the bucket collection on the gate raised £457. The photograph shows Santa (aka Southport branch souvenir secretary!) with Storm Force member Victoria Whitehill and Captain Wilson. Kelly's Heroes Pupils from Kelly College Junior School, Tavistock, visited Plymouth lifeboat as part of their general studies course at school following a RNLI presentation at their school about lifeboats. In recognition of the Institution's 175th anniversary pupils embarked on a series of fund raising activities which raised £175! The cash raised was handed over to Plymouth lifeboat mechanic Derek Studden by head girl Katie Hatcher. Leo's lifeboat lyrics Newbiggin fundraisers had a busy time last summer - just days after moving back into their refurbished boathouse the Annual Harbour Day was held and, together with proceeds from lifeboat week, over £3,000 was raised. A week later the guild and branch members provided refreshments to crowds gathered at the town fair - raising £1,400. Entertainment on the day included a set from pop legend Leo Sayer who even included some improvised lifeboat lyrics in one of his songs! Pinafore profit The Aireborough Gilbert and Sullivan Society gave a highly acclaimed performance of HMS Pinafore last September and again made a profit on the production. Each year members of Yeadon branch serve refreshments at the shows and the society generally make a donation of £100. This time however, due to the seafaring nature of the show, the branch received a cheque for £400. Net profit Hilti Industries of West Bromwich supported two of their managers, Martin Parker and Jim Coombes (who is also a member of the Stourbridge branch) by sponsoring them in a 24- hour deep sea fish to raise funds for Aberdovey lifeboat. Hilti agreed to meet Martin and Jim's efforts pound for pound up to £500 and also sought support from suppliers, local businesses and other colleagues. Paul Brown of Hereford and Phil Taroni of Sutton Coldfield also took part in the event and in all, £2,400 was raised for lifeboat funds. 36 Savings Account Interested in good investments? Help raise £50,000 for the RNLI! 2,000 volunteers The Harbour Account was launched in 1997 through the Royal Bank of Scotland. Although they are offering competitive rates, initial take-up has been lower than we hoped. But the good news is that The Royal Bank have agreed to extend the two required year deadline by a full year to help RNLI supporters open the 2,000 Harbour Accounts required to qualify for a guaranteed £50,000 donation. As we go to press, we still need approxi- to help the RNLI. mately 1,500 accounts to meet the target. For full details see the adjacent advert. Business Benefits the RNLI - turn a few odd shares into a valuable donation Do you have a few odd shares floating around? Shares which would possibly not be worth the commission when sold? If the answer is yes, then the RNLI would like to hear from you. Our Don't worry, you don't have to get your feet wet. broker Charles Stanley Ltd specialises in selling small volumes of shares from UK registered companies. Quite simply they Just open a Royal Bank of Scotland Harbour Account. collect together small share units until they have enough to sell cost effectively on our behalf. Last year alone, this scheme raised an impressive £8,000 and the figures are already looking • We'll donate 0.25% of your balance to the RNLI encouraging for 1999. If you can help, please contact Tizzy Perkins today on (01202) 663212. each year. Buoyancy Aid — new Lifeboats MasterCard • What's more, if 2,000 or more accounts are design for the 175th anniversary The RNLI is launching another opened by the end of June 2000, we'll give a total card design for all new of at least £50,000 towards a new lifeboat. cardholders. Alongside the existing Arun, the new card • Flexible banking by 1st class post. depicts a Severn class lifeboat at speed! If you haven't already applied for a MasterCard, now is the time. With the great new terms Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution from The Royal Bank of Scotland, the MasterCard will be a welcome addition to any wallet or purse. (No annual fee, APR on purchases of 19.9% For more information call us on and up to a £100 cash back. If you already have a credit card, why not replace it? The process is very straightforward and there's no need to be either a Royal Bank customer or even a RNLI member to apply. What's more, the Royal Bank will 0800 121121 donate £10 for every new cardholder and then 25p for every quote ref RN4 £100 of spend. For an application form and full details, simply call (01202) 3213 today. Please note: If you're an existing cardholder and are Alternatively complete the information below and send to: tempted by the new card design, please write to The Royal FREEPOST, The Royal Bank of Scotland pic, Bank at the address below and the next time your card is PO Box 1727,1 Redheughs Avenue, Edinburgh, EH12 OTW. renewed, they'll make sure its the Severn class card. Scott Kirkpatrick, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Drummond House, NAME. PO Box 1727, 1 Redheughs Avenue, Edinburgh EH12 9JN. ADDRESS. Mine's a pint! Don't forget to stock up with Tolly Cobbold's famous Celebration Ale. 8.5p .POSTCODE. from every bottle is donated to the RNLI and the beer is winning new friends all /"> tfan of tanHg tivn al tra TEL. NO: DAY. EVE CELEKAT10NALE over the country. Available from several itx~n* EXISTING CUSTOMER YES D NO D major retailers and specialist off licenses. Insurance for sailors (We may telephone you W The Royal Bank to discuss your enquiry.) Offshore members can now benefit from the launch of the of Scotland official RNLI Offshore Yacht Insurance Scheme through the marine specialist Bishop Skinner. If you are an Offshore Subject to status. 30 days' notice must be given for withdrawals on a Harbour Account. A charge of SOp per member, you can save up to 10% on some of the most £100 withdrawal (on a pro rata basis) will be charged for withdrawals permitted by the Bank without 30 days' notice. Gross rate is the rate paid without the deduction of income tax to non-taxpaying customers competitive rates on the market. For more information call Interest paid annually Calls may be recorded. RNLI is a registered charity. Charity No. 209603. Bishop Skinner today on (0800) 783 8057. The Royal Bank of Scotland pic. Registered Office: 36 St. Andrew Square. Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Registered in Scotland No. 90312 37 ...In Brief... During a visit to Dublin, mem- bers and friends ot I lamhidnu Prize old lifeboat station look part in (he Dublin marathon - raising O.7IM) Mummers in the privcss. Hilary Plant nominated the In December RNLI as the charity to benefit Emsworth branch from her year as captain of the received a cheque for ladies section of Thorpeness cull' club. £520 was raised from her £500 from the 'Prize 'drive-in' and a series of 'ball Old Mummers' of sw eeps' . A cheque lor the amount Emsworth Slipper raised was presented to Sailing Club. Framlington and District branch. The group of eight In October KriiMte and go to local pubs and act Ki'dhill branch held its filth an- out a 30 minute nual qui/ night when it broke its ste.uliK rising record and raised historical farce and then £620 during the evening. So far pass round the RNLI the qui/ nights ha\e realised collection bucket. A £I. With best wishes, Please return this coupon to: RNLI Flora London Marathon Appeal RNLI, FREEPOST. West Quay Road Andrew Freemantle MBE PooleBH15 1XF Director 39 Yachting hero and author Pete Goss recounted Hero helps appeal his dramatic story to Newcastle's Tyne Theatre in November raising £1,400 for the Tynemouth Lifeboat Appeal. The audience were captivated as Pete told them what it was really like to be alone in the freezing Antarctic ocean, barely surviving the cold and storm and turning back hundreds of miles to rescue a fellow sailor in his sinking yacht. The story had a happy ending and Pete's Market Day rescue of Frenchman Raphael Dinelli earned him The centuries-old the Legion d'Honneur from France and thrust Dunstable market recently him into international recognition as an intrepid moved to a new site and adventurer as well as a first class yachtsman. the official opening Pete also unveiled his plans for the next 'Pete coincided with the local branch flag day. The Goss Challenge' which is to build a 115ft super- RNLI was allocated the yacht and take part in the Millennium yacht race charity stall in the market which starts on 31 December 2000. and the photograph shows Everyone in the audience enjoyed the presen- Sir David Madell, South tation, including Pauline Speed, Tynemouth West Bedfordshire MP, Appeal Director, who was also delighted with Vera Cook, branch helper, the evening's proceeds. and Mary Chapman, The appeal which was launched last June has branch vice chairman and box secretary. so far raised over £200,000 towards the new Total income from Tynemouth lifeboat - the aim is to reach the sales at the stall and the £1,000,000 target by December 1999. For Pete Goss (right) with Pauline Speed. Tynemouth Appeal flag day came to £940. Director, and Robbie Storrar who organised the event. further information contact the Tynemouth Photo: John Shorthouse. Photo. La King. Lifeboat Appeal office on: (0191) 272 8400. Kextral Studio\. Game for an adventure? Then jj.itlu-r three friends, grab a set of wheels Crews and hit the road for the RNLI Lifeboat Challenge. It's the fun, new event, to raise needed vital funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and celebrate 175 years of saving Lifeboat Challenge 77ic drive to saw /iVc.< til sea urgently lives at sea. Your mission will be to visit as many operational RNLI lifeboat stations in the UK and the Republic of Ireland in 48 hours from 6pm Friday 4 June 1999 until 6pm Sunday 6 June 1999. You can do it however you like: by skates or scooter, horse or helicopter, or just good old car. All we ask is you and each team member raise at least .£100 through sponsorship. 175 years For your part you'll be rewarded with of saving lives at sea the thrill of the challenge, the comradeship and the chance to win one of many fabulous prizes. If you'd like to join the drive to save Lifeboats lives at sea, please phone the RNLI Help Royal National Lifeboat institution Desk on 01202 663 234. 40 launches Station-by-station lifeboat launches for August, September and October 1998 Aberdeen Atlantic 21: Aug 11, 12, 19, 21, 26 (twice), 30 and Sep 30 Trent: Aug 17, 26, 29, Sep 20 Arun: Aug 29 23, 28, 29 (twice), Sep 3, 5, Burnham-on-Crouch (twice), Oct 11, 17 and 21 Aberdovey 11 and 19 Atlantic 75: Aug 4, 8 (twice), D Class: Aug 17. 26, 29, Sep Atlantic 21: Aug 12and 19 Barmouth 9, 30 (twice), Sep 1, 5, 18, 12 and 20 (twice) Mersey: Aug 10, 22, 31, Sep 20, Oct 11 and 25 (twice) Dungeness Abersoch 5 and Oct 19 D Class: Aug 12, 30 and Oct Mersey: Aug 19 and Oct 20 Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 7, 20, 21, D Class: Aug 5, 8, 9 (six 25 Dunmore East 30 and 31 times), 10, 15, 16, 17, 31 Burry Port Trent: Aug 12, 21 (twice), 27, Aberystwyth (twice) and Sep 5 D Class: Oct 23 Sep 6, 10, 11, Oct 9 and 29 Atlantic 75: Aug 11, 23, 29, Barra Island Calshot Eastbourne 30 (twice) and Sep 6 Severn: Aug 19, Sep 28 and Brede: Aug 1, 3 (three times), Mersey: Aug 1, 5, 7, 9 Achill Island Oct 18 6, 7, 12, Sep 5, 9 and Oct 17 (twice), 22 (twice), 28, 29, 30 Arun: Aug 21, Sep 2, 10 and Barrow Campbeltown (three times), Sep 20 (three Oct 13 Tyne: Aug 1 and 31 (twice) Arun: Aug 19 and Sep 5 times), 25, 26, 27, Oct 9 and Aith D Class: Aug 9, 17, Sep 8 and D Class: Aug 25 13 Arun: Aug 13 18 (twice) Cardigan D Class: Aug 1, 4, 9 (three Aldeburgh Barry Dock Atlantic 21: Aug 5, 9, 17, 19, times), 11 (twice), 12, 13, 14, Mersey: Aug 12 (twice), Sep Arun: Aug 12, 21 (twice), 31, 20 (twice), Sep 1 and 4 16, 21, 22 (three times), 23. 25, Oct 9 and 11 Sep 8, 15. 16, Oct 19. 24, 27, D Class: Aug 10, 20, Oct 9 24,30,31, Sep 16 and 20 D Class: Aug 9, 12 (three 28 and 31 and 26 Exmouth times), 16, 17, Sep 3, 19, 24 Beaumaris Castletownbere Trent: Aug 5, 21, 22, 27, Sep and Oct 24 Atlantic 21: Aug 8 (twice), 9 Arun: Aug 3, 12 and Oct 26 9, 13, 16 and 18 Alderney (four times), 16, 26, Sep 4, 9, Clacton-on-Sea D Class: Aug 5, 18 (twice), Trent: Aug 3, 8, 12 (twice). 14, 19, 20 (twice), Oct 4 Atlantic 21: Aug 3, 5 (twice), 19, 22, 26, 29, 31, Sep 5 29, Sep 17, Oct 24 and 30 (twice), 6 (twice), 7, 10, 18 9, 23, Sep 2, 6, 13, 14, 17 (three times), 6, 9, 20, 30, D Class: Oct 9 and 24 and 24 (three times) and 21 (twice) Oct 11 (twice) and 29 Amble Bembridge Cleethorpes Eyemouth Waveney: Aug 1 (twice), 5, 7, Tyne: Aug 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, D Class: Aug 7, 12, 16, 18, Trent: Aug 2, 17,20,22,29, 8, 12, 13, 19,30, 31 and Oct 18, 25, 26, Sep 9, Oct 17 Sep 2, 7 (twice), 11, 20, 30, 31, Sep 4, 6, 19, Oct 17, 21 17 (twice), 24 and 28 Oct 5 and 12 (twice) and 31 D Class: Aug 5, 12, 13, 19, 25 D Class: Aug 19, 21 (twice), Clogher Head Falmouth and 30 23, 24, 28. 31 and Oct 24 Mersey: Sep 11 and Oct 13 Severn: Aug 11,19 (twice), Angle Berwick-Upon-Tweed Clovelly 23 (twice), 24 and Sep 4 Tyne: Aug 14, 30, Sep 1, 8, Mersey: Aug 27 Atlantic 21: Aug 10, Sep 29 Arun: Oct 13 25 and Oct 11 D Class: Aug 1, 23, 27 and and 30 Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 4, 9, 12, D Class: Aug 24, 31, Sep 8 Sep 8 Conwy 19 (three times), 23 (twice), and 26 Blackpool D Class: Aug 4, 10, Sep 1 and 25, 26, 31, Sep 4, 5 and 14 Anstruther Atlantic 75: Aug 19, Oct 1 Oct 19 Fenit Mersey: Aug 9, Sep 7 (twice) and 11 Courtmacsherry Harbour Arun: Aug 12 (twice), 29, 30 and 24 D Class: Aug 7 (twice), 19, Trent: Aug 20, 21, Sep 5, 25 and Sep 16 Appledore Oct 1, 11 (twice), 18 (four and Oct 24 Fethard Atlantic 75: Aug 3, 7, 9 (three times) and 25 Courtown D Class: Aug 3, 11, 12, 13, 14 times), 13, 15,20,27,29,31, Blyth D Class: Aug 4, 6, 21 and 28 and 15 Sep 8, 17 and 25 Trent: Aug 7 (twice), 9, Oct (twice) Filey Tyne: Aug 27, 31, Oct 3 and 17 and 25 Craster Mersey: Aug 1 and 27 16 (twice) D Class: Aug 9 and 30 D Class: Aug 3 and 12 (twice) D Class: Aug 6, 12 (four Aran Islands Borth Criccieth times), 16, 19. 20, Sep 10, Severn: Aug 13, 21, 28, Sep D Class: Aug 2, 3, 7, 11, Sep Atlantic 75: Aug 1, 9 (twice), Oct 11 (twice) and 17 2,6, 11, Oct 16 and 20 6 and Oct 16 10, 15, 19, 26 (twice), 31, Fishguard Arbroath Bridlington Sep 8, 9 and 13 Trent: Aug 2, 14, 29, 31 and Mersey: Aug 18 Mersey: Aug 11, 19 and 31 Cromer Sep 22 D Class: Aug 18 and Sep 11 D Class: Aug 1, 2, 4 (four Mersey: Aug 12 (twice), 16, D Class: Aug 10,29, 31, Sep Arklow times), 5 (twice), 6, 8, 11, 12, Sep 4, 13 and 23 22 and 23 Trent: Aug 11, 19. 25 (twice) 13 (twice). 15, 16 (twice), 17 D Class: Aug 6, 12, 16, 19 Flamborough and Sep 17 (three times), 29, 30, Sep 7, and 20 Atlantic 75: Aug 2, 4, 11 Arran (Lamlash) 28 and Oct 10 Cullercoats (twice), 13, 15 (twice), 16, 19, Atlantic 21: Aug 31 Brighton Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 9, 10, 15, 28, 29, 30, 31 (four times), Arranmore Atlantic 75: Aug 1, 2 (twice), Sep 4 and 20 Sep 7 and 20 (twice) Tyne: Aug 3, 9, 15, 16 and 9 (four times), 14, 25, Sep 3, Donaghadee Fleetwood Sep 1 5, 12, 19, 20, 30, Oct 4, 6 and Arun: Aug 2, 7, 17, 29 and Waveney: Aug 1,9, 12, 17, Atlantic College 22 Sep 11 Sep 5, 6 (twice), 23, 27, Oct Atlantic 21: Sep 15 and Oct Broughty Ferry Douglas 11 and 25 31 Arun: Aug 2 and 12 (twice) Tyne: Aug 13, Oct 2 and 12 D Class: Aug 1. 9 (three Ballycotton D Class: Aug 12 (twice), 26, Dover times), 12, 15, 17, 19,26, Trent: Aug 2, Sep 18 and Oct 27,30, Sep 13, 19, 21 and 26 Severn: Aug 4, 6, 8, 19, 22 Sep 5, 6 (twice), 19 and Oct 22 Buckle (twice), 23, Sep 2, 7, 11,20, 24 Ballyglass Arun: Aug 4 (twice), 6, 30. 25, 26 and Oct 12 Flint Severn: Aug 31 Sep 26, Oct 14 and 20 Dun Laoghaire D Class: Aug 1. 21, Sep 6 Arun: Aug 3 Bude Trent: Aug 3 (twice), 23, 31, (twice), 20 (four times), Oct 9 Baltimore D Class: Aug 5, 6 (twice), 8, Sep 1, 21, Oct 3 (twice) and 9 and 25 Tyne: Aug 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 15, 21, 31 and Sep 6 (twice) D Class: Aug 9 (twice), 16 Fowey 20, 30, Sep 8 and 9 Bundoran (twice) and 23 (five times) Trent: Aug 8 (twice), 18, 20, Bangor (Co. Down) Atlantic 75: Aug 14, 15, 19, Dunbar 23 and Sep 10 41 FKOIVI RNLI From the Band of HM Royal Marines, Portsmouth under the direction of Captain John Perkins: "To celebrate the RNLI's 175 years of saving lires at sea". John Perkins joined the Royal Marines Hand Service in 1'Xo and served as a violin and cornet player in various Royal Marines bands until he was commissioned and appuinu.il as a Director of .Music in 19S4. Throughout his time as a Director of Music he has had a keen interest in recording and become a passionate .supporter of the Royal National Lifelxut Prices: CDs - £12.00' each Institution Cassettes - £8.00' each "This is my fourth mon/ing in suf/Kirt ttf //><• RMJ anil llv must exciting In i/nle llv internationally reiinuiietl llarilone \\illiinn Shimdljiml sang ii'ilh me ami llv Hag Officer Plymouth limit/ in /%'5 after i:\yt IKIIS TO FAREWELL, Hie partnership and warm relationship established Ivlween the RNLI and the Roul RMJ WF.STCOfNTOV (.KOI I' BRITANNIA Marines now enables thex1 recordings. b\ then- outstanding musicians, to Ix- available \ DIVISION 01 KM.hsM.IM 1.1 1) through the RNLI anil, at the same time, provide funds for the lilelxial service WEST ROCK. T1IE CLEAVE, from their sales. These recordings are nut generally available Irom KINGSAND, TORPOINT, record stores' The quality ol the recordings is greatly acclaimed and CORNWAIJ. PI 10 INF. relied the sheer professionalism of the two organisations in T ^^^^_. the exailing standards of work in their different fields. The 1 / ^ A7/?/'7 KC .\LL CHEQfF,S SHOl'U) BH recordings shown represent pan of the ever incrca-ing *- ' •-' JftZHt iJ MADE PAY.XBLE TO: RMJ number released - a full playlisl is available on application. cfsOVing lives til \CH RNLI PERSONALISED ITEMS NEW RNLI RNLI PULLOVERS SWEATSHIRTS from the RNLI Y-Neck with RNL1 Flag \Vith RNLI flag embroidered embroidered with name, with name, branch, station the name synonymous branch, station or crew etc or uvvv eli .Urylk -i>-j.OO BO * ottun 20' I'olvester Fleece-42400 with fine musk recordings! COLOl'RS: Navy. ISlack. Buttle C.reen. Burgundy, (01.01 Rv Navy. Ulack. SALTY TALES Red. Royal. Silver. Royal. Forest Clreen. loo LimbswixJ - i3-i.OO Charcoal. "Songs 8t Stories of the Sea" COLOlRs Navy, Bottle SEES Tim Laycock 8. Taffy Thomas with Mike Harding, Green. 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CORWAU PL10 INF TELEPHONE: CDs-£12 CASSETTES-£8 (Or52) 822638 (Prices include PsP on all orders from within the UK) - Overseas postal rates on request .UL CHEQfES SHO11D BE ALL PROFITS FROM RNLI (SALES) LTD. GO TO THE INSTITUTION! .\L\DE PAYABLE TO: RNU RNLI WESTCOUNTRY RNLI WEST COUNTRY GROUP 420.00tine A division of RNLI (Sales) Ltd. £12.00 (inc I'SPlTKll lt\\\ engraved plate with West Rock, The Cleave, Kingsand, your own wording Including Branch. Guild. Torpoim, Cornwall, PL 10 INF extra. Lifeboats Mation or individual name : or lettering of saving lives at .ten Tel: 01752 8226738 for that perfect presentalinii Royal Nationa Lifeboat InsHution Appreciations, Retirements. l'cr/i\ I fur shiiK. hliniAf. All Cheques should be made payable to RNLI (Please allow 28 days for delivery) Trophie* elc /tow (///"/r JiS days for detiuery blazers or wel nvutlvr xcur' Lyme Regis 10 and 21 0*U Atlantic 75: Aug 1, 2, 7, 9, 10 North Kessock (three times), 12 (three D Class: Aug 9, 12. Sep 7, 12, Continued... times), 15, 16, 21,23, 28 18, 19, Oct 9 and 14 (twice), Sep 17, 23, Oct 3, 11 North Sunderland D Class: Aug 8 (twice), 9, 15, Atlantic 75: Sep 11, 20 and and 29 Mersey: Aug 11,22 (twice), 17, Sep 2, 4, 6 and Oct 30 Oct 27 Lymington 23, Sep 6 (twice), 13, 21, Oct Fraserburgh Atlantic 21: Aug 7 (twice), 9 Atlantic 21: Aug 3, 4, 13, 14, 7, 17 (twice) Tyne: Aug 27 (four times), 10 (twice), 11, 16 (twice), 20, 30, Sep 5 D Class: Aug 6 (twice), 22 Galway 14, 21, 26, Sep 4, and 5 (twice), 19, 21, Oct 11 and 18 (twice), 23, Sep 6, 21, Oct 7 Atlantic 75: Aug 11,16, Sep llfracombe Lytham St. Annes and 25 29, Oct 14, 23 and 27 Mersey: Aug 6, 8, 10 (twice), Mersey: Aug 17 and Oct 11 Oban Girvan 21 and Sep 11 D Class: Aug 16, 27, Sep 7, Trent: Aug 1 (twice), 3, 5, 6, Mersey: Aug 2 and Oct 14 D Class: Aug 6 (twice), 11, 11, 21, 27, Oct 11 (twice) and 7, 9 (twice), 12, 13 (twice), Gt. Yarmouth & Gorleston 19,24,27,31 and Sep 8 30 14, 15 (twice), 16, 19,22,23, Trent: Aug 12, Sep 14, 24, 28, Invergordon Mablethorpe 27, 29, Sep 1, 4, 7, 10, 12, 14 Oct 24 and 30 Trent: Sep 18, Oct 12, 16 and D Class: Aug 4 (three times), (three times), 16 (twice), 19, Atlantic 21: Aug 4, 5, 7, 9 29 5 (three times), 6, 9. 20, 22 22, 30, Oct 4 (twice), 5 (three times), 12 (twice), 13 Islay and Oct 11 (twice), 14, 17, 19 (three (twice), 22, 24, Sep 3, 9, 12, Severn: Aug 14, 15 (twice), Macduff times), 20, 21, 24 and 28 13 (five times), Oct 4, 8, 24 30 (twice) and Sep 2 Atlantic 21: Aug 9 (twice), 12, Padstow (three times), 26 and 28 Kilkeel 27, Sep 23 and Oct 16 Tyne: Aug 8, 10, 24, 31, Sep Happisburgh Atlantic 21: Aug 2,8, 17 and Mallaig 6 (twice), 15, 24 and Oct 5 D Class: Aug 7 and 13 Oct 13 (twice) Arun: Aug 6 (twice), 14, 21, Penarth Hartlepool Kilmore Quay Sep 8 and Oct 25 Atlantic 75: Aug 7, 17, 21,31, Arun: Aug 16, 27 (twice) and Mersey: Aug 9 (three times), Marazion Sep 24, Oct 4, 18 and 19 Oct 17 12, 15, 16, Sep 5, Oct 3 and 5 D Class: Aug 19 and 31 D Class: Aug 27, Sep 19, 24, Atlantic 21: Aug 13, 16,27, Kilrush Margate Oct 3, 4 (twice), 23 and 26 31 and Sep 19 Atlantic 75: Aug 15 and Sep Mersey: Aug 7, 9, 12, 22 Penlee Harwich 27 (twice) and Oct 31 Arun: Aug 9, Sep 2 and Oct Severn: Aug 1, 14, 20, 23, 26, Kingdom D Class: Aug 2 (twice), 4, 7, 25 27 and Oct 3 Atlantic 75: Aug 2, 8, 9 8, 12, 17, 20, 26, 31, Sep 4, 6 Peterhead Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 4, 8 (twice), 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 22, and Oct 28 Tyne: Aug 22 and Oct 13 (twice), 12 (twice), 18, 20 26, 29, 30, Sep 7, 24, Oct 7, Minehead Plymouth (twice), 21 (twice), 23, 24, 9, 23, 25 and 28 Atlantic 75: Aug 2, 3, 8, 24, Arun: Aug 5, 8, 9 (twice), 10, Sep 5 (three times), 7, 23, Kippford 30, Sep 8 and Oct 31 15, 19, 24, 29, 30, Sep 6, 16, Oct 10, 20 and 24 D Class: Aug 3, 24, 26 and D Class: Aug 10 and 29 20, Oct 5 and 15 Hastings Sep 5 Moelfre Poole Mersey: Aug 9, Sep 8, 10, 11 Kirkcudbright Tyne: Aug 7, 16, 27, 31, Sep Atlantic 75: Aug 3 (four and Oct 19 Atlantic 21: Aug 11 9, 15 and Oct 24 times), 5, 6, 9 (three times), D Class: Aug 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, Kirkwall D Class: Aug 7, 8, 9, 11 10 (twice), 12, 14 (twice), 16, 12, 16, 22, Sep 11, Oct 11 Severn: Aug 7, 23, Sep 12 (seven times), 15, 22, 31 and 19, 23, 25, 26, 31 (three and 25 and Oct 1 Sep 12 times), Sep 3, 6 (twice), 10 Hayling Island Kyle of Lochalsh Morecambe (three times), 12, 14, 20, Oct Atlantic 75: Aug 2, 3 (twice), Atlantic 75: Aug 4, 26, Sep D Class: Aug 11 and Sep 7 15, 17 (twice), 19, 25 (twice) 4 (twice). 8 (twice), 9 (five 12, Oct 14 and 18 Mudeford and 29 times), 15, 22, 30, 31 (twice), Largs Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 9 (twice), Brede: Aug 3, 4, 5, 9 (six Sep 1, 11, 13, 20 (twice), 25, Atlantic 75: Aug 2 (three 14, 20, 21, 23, 26,30, Sep 1, times), 10, 16, 19, 23 (twice), 30, Oct 17, 23 and 28 times), 15, Sep 4, 16, 21, 26 2, 6 (twice), 7, 20, 26, 27, Oct 25, 26, 28, 30, 31 (four D Class: Aug 6 (twice), 9 (twice), Oct 14, 16 and 24 3, 16, 17 and 24 times), Sep 6 (twice), 20, 21 (three times), 12, 13, 31, Sep Larne New Brighton (twice), Oct 11, 18, 19 and 25 20 (twice) and 25 Atlantic 75: Oct 25 (twice) Atlantic 75: Aug 7, 8, 10, 11, Port Erin Helensburgh Waveney: Oct 26 15, Sep 27, Oct 19 and 20 Atlantic 21: Aug 11, 21, 22 Atlantic 21: Aug 4, 21 (twice), D Class: Aug 2 and Sep 19 New Quay (Cardiganshire) and Oct 15 Sep 11, 12, 16,20,28,29, Lerwick Mersey: Aug 17, Sep 1,10 Port Isaac 30, Oct 5, 8 and 11 Severn: Aug 26, 29, Sep 20 and Oct 11 D Class: Aug 4, 11 (twice), Helvick Head and Oct 6 D Class: Aug 6, 22, 30 and 16, 30 (twice), 31 (twice) and Atlantic 21: Aug 23 and 28 Little & Broad Haven Oct 11 Sep 6 Holyhead D Class: Aug 7, 8, 11, 20 and Newbiggin Port St. Mary Arun: Aug 1 (three times), 15, 30 Atlantic 75: Aug 9, 14, Sep Trent: Aug 23 and Oct 15 24, Sep 10, 13, Oct 1, 7 and Littlehampton 23, 27, Oct 11 and 16 Port Talbot 31 Atlantic 21: Aug 8 (twice), 10 Atlantic 21: Aug 1 D Class: Aug 18, 31 and Sep D Class: Aug 1 (twice), 26, (twice), 12, 15, 16, 17 (twice), Newcastle (Co. Down) 13 Sep 9, 13 and Oct 4 30, Sep 4, 15, 26 and Oct 23 Mersey: Aug 9, 16, 29, 31, Portaferry Horton & Port Eynon Littlestone-on-Sea Sep 12 and Oct 4 Atlantic 75: Aug 1, 11, 22, 23, D Class: Aug 2, 4, 5 (twice), Atlantic 21: Aug 3 D Class: Aug 16 27. 29, 31, Sep 11, 12, 13 11, 22, 24 (twice), 31, Sep 5. Llandudno Newhaven and 20 (twice) 16, Oct 3 and 11 Mersey: Aug 4, 9, 10 (twice) Arun: Aug 1, 9, 10, 12, 16, Porthcawl Howth and Sep 20 18, 19, 29, Sep 1, 20 (three Atlantic 75: Aug 1, 5 (twice), Arun: Aug 3, 31, Sep 21, 28, D Class: Aug 3, 4, 9, 10 times), 26, Oct 13, 21, 22 7, 11, 12 (twice), 15 (twice), 30, Oct 3, 11 and 18 (twice), 24, 26, Sep 3 and 18 (twice) and Oct 23 16, 18 (twice), 19 (twice), 31, D Class: Aug 2 (twice), 7 and Lochinver Newquay (Cornwall) Sep 7, 12, 16, 20 (twice), 23 25 (twice) Arun: Aug 11 Atlantic 75: Aug 5, 6, 8 and Oct 18 Hoylake Longhope (twice), 9, 11, 13, 14, 16 Porthdinllaen Mersey: Sep 20 Arun: Sep 9 (twice), 26, 27, 28, 30, Sep 6, Tyne: Oct 20 Humber Lough Swilly 10, 12, 20, 22 and Oct 18 Portpatrick Severn: Aug 2, 7, 12, 17, 23 Atlantic 75: Aug 16 (three D Class: Aug 5, 6, 8 (three Tyne: Sep 10 (twice), 27, 31, Sep 5, 6, 16, times), 28, Sep 20 and 30 times), 9 (twice), 16 (twice), Portree 23, 24 (twice), Sep 30. Oct 4, Lowestoft 30 (twice), Sep 10, 20 and 22 Trent: Sep 1 (twice), 12 and 12 and 22 Waveney: Aug 15, 17, 27, North Berwick 28 Hunstanton Sep 3, Oct 3, 6 and 9 D Class: Aug 29, Sep 18, Oct Portrush 43 ; Waveney: Aug 9, 19 (twice), D Class: Aug 4, 5, 10, 12 " ix v* Sep 5, 13 and 25 (twice), 19, Sep 5, 13 and Oct St. Ives 3 Continued... Mersey: Aug 21 and Sep 24 Silloth D Class: Aug 2, 12, Sep 23, Atlantic 75: Sep 15 Arun: Aug 4, 14 (twice), 19, Sep 12, 13 and Oct 14 24, Oct 10 and 29 Skegness Sep28, Oct 11 and 21 D Class: Aug 9 (twice), 11, St. Mary's Mersey: Aug 11 (twice), 12 D Class: Aug 6, 9 (twice), 14, 19, 24 and Sep 12 (twice) Severn: Sep 6 (twice) (three times), 18, 19 (three 19, 22,30, Sep 8 (twice), 20 Rhyl St. Peter Port times), 23, 26, 31, Sep 14, (twice), 21 and 28 Mersey: Aug 27 (twice) and Severn: Sep 11, Oct 5 and 26 Oct 4 and 27 Portsmouth 30 Arun: Aug 11 (twice) and 12 D Class: Aug 2 (twice). 4 (five Atlantic 75: Aug 2 (twice), 9, D Class: Aug 1,4, 5, 7 Salcombe times), 5 (seven times), 6 (six 12 (twice), 20 (three times), (twice), 9 (four times), 11, 14, Tyne: Aug 4, 6, 10, 11,20, times), 7 (three times), 8, 9, 22, 26, 31,Sep4, 12,21 18, 22, 27 and 30 (four times) 23, Sep 5 (twice), Oct 3 and 11 (four times), 12 (four (twice), Oct 21 and 25 (twice) Rock 17 times), 14, 15 (three times), D Class: Aug 2, 9, 12, Sep 4, D Class: Aug 4, 7, 22 and Oct Scarborough 19 (four times), 20, 26,28, 11 and 14 10 D Class: Aug 2 31, Sep 1 and 10 (twice) Pwllheli Rosslare Harbour Selsey Skerries Mersey: Aug 12, 16 and Oct Arun: Aug 11, Sep 2 and 4 Tyne: Aug 12 (twice), 17, 31, Atlantic 75: Aug 1, 16, 27, 29, 18 Rye Harbour Sep 29 and Oct 14 (twice) 30 (twice) and Oct 31 D Class: Aug 3 and 5 Atlantic 75: Aug 8, 9(10 D Class: Aug 2, 4, 8, 9, 12 Sligo Bay Queensferry times), 11, 18, 23, 30 and Oct (twice), 22, 26, Oct 19 and 25 D Class: Aug 8 and 18 Atlantic 75: Aug 2 (twice), 8, 3 Sennen Cove Southend-on-Sea 9, 11, 18, 29 (twice), Sep 9, St. Abbs Mersey: Aug 4, 12 and Sep Atlantic 21: Aug 2 (twice), 3, 10, 17,20,21 and Oct 25 Atlantic 21: Aug 23, 31, Sep 24 9 (twice), 12, 16, 21,22, 25, Ramsgate 6, 19 and 21 D Class: Aug 4 and 6 30, Sep 3 (twice), 6, 12, 13, Trent: Aug 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, St. Agnes Sheerness 19, Oct 4, 10, 11 (twice), 14 16, 20, 21, 23 (twice), Sep 6, D Class: Aug 9, Sep 8 and 20 Trent: Aug 3, 12, 24, 31, Sep (twice). 17, 18 (twice), 24 and 11, 14 and Oct 16 St. Bees 4, 19, 25, Oct 3, 17 and 25 25 Atlantic 21: Aug 7, 8 (twice), Atlantic 75: Aug 5, 9 and 18 D Class: Aug 2, 9, 11, 14 D Class: Aug 4, 8, 9 (twice). 12 (three times), 14 (three St. Catherine (twice), 22, 31, Sep 7 (twice), 12 (twice), 14, 19, 25, Sep 1 times), 15, 16, 23, 30 (twice), Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 8, 16, Sep 9, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22, Oct 8 (three times), 6, 16, 25 and Sep 5, 20 and Oct 25 2, 5, 20 and 25 and 17 Oct 17 Red Bay St. Davids Sheringham Southwold Atlantic 75: Aug 2 (twice), 14, Tyne: Aug 14 (twice), 22, Sep Atlantic 75: Aug 2, 8, 19, 24, Atlantic 21: Aug 11, 13, 20, 23, 30 and Sep 27 6 and 17 30, 31, Sep 4, 29 and Oct 14 23, 27 (twice), Sep 26 and Redcar D Class: Aug 7, 24, 30 Shoreham Harbour Oct 9 Atlantic 21: Aug 6, 9, 11, 12 (twice), Sep 5 (twice) and 24 Tyne: Aug 10, 17, 18, 19, Sep Staithes and Runswick (twice), 19 (twice), 24, 25, St. Helier 1, 5 and Oct 26 Atlantic 21: Aug 29, Sep 6, 9, Together we build a better engine. Roval National \ L^jg V Lifeboat Institution as been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines H from E. P. Barms Ltd for over 20 years. These engines have been specially modified to the R.N.L.I.'s exacting standards by our Special Products Division. ow the Marine Leisure Division can offer you the same N benefits through our Contract Exchange engines, available from appointed Mariner Dealers. In service for 1 year only, these 25hp/40hp Mariner Outboards are fully reconditioned and carry a 1 year (UK only) limited warranty. Please contact the UK distributor for further details and your nearest dealer quoting ref. RNLI. E. P. Barrus Ltd, Launton Road. Bicester, Oxon. OX6 OUR. IOUTBOARDS Tel: 01869 363636 Fax: 01869 363617 44 12, 13 and 14 Thurso Walton and Frinton (twice), 19, 21, 23, 29 and Stornoway Arun: Aug 3, 19, 30, Oct 3 Tyne: Aug 8, 9, 11, 24 (three Sep 7 Arun: Aug 18, 26, Sep 18. 19, and 9 times), 27, Sep 20, Oct 3 and Whitstable 24 and Oct 9 Tighnabruaich 26 Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (twice), 3, Sunderland Atlantic 75: Aug 6, 21 and 29 Wells 4,6,8,9, 11, 13, 14,20,27, Trent: Aug 6, 11 (twice), 12 Tobermory Mersey: Aug 11, 24, Oct 11 31, Sep 5, 10, 12, 13 (six (twice), 17,24,25,30,31 Arun: Aug 1 (twice), 28 and and 31 times), 25, Oct 3, 4, 8, 9. 11, (twice), Sep 14, 26, Oct 16, 29 D Class: Aug 2, 8, 9, 13, 16 17 and 24 17 (four times) and 24 (twice) Torbay (twice), 17, 21 (twice), 24, Wick D Class: Aug 2, 12 (twice), Arun: Aug 3, 6, 7, 22, 31, Sep Sep 4 and Oct 31 Trent: Aug 8 and Oct 16 30,31, Sep 19 and Oct 24 5, 9, 11, 15, 17, 22, 26 (three West Kirby Wicklow Swanage times) and Oct 9 D Class: Aug 18, Sep 5 and Tyne: Aug 1,3, 11, 18, Sep Mersey: Aug 5, 9 (three D Class: Aug 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10 22, 27 and Oct 12 times), 12,21,22,25,26,27, 20, 22, Sep 4 (twice), 5 West Mersea D Class: Aug 1, 2, 3, 11 and 29 (twice). Sep 5, 16 and 21 (twice), 9, Oct 17 (twice) and Atlantic 21: Aug 5, 6, 8, 14, Oct 12 D Class Aug 9, 17 (twice), 21, 31 15, 20, 21, 22, 23 (three Withernsea 22, 24, 26, 27, 31 (twice), Tramore times), 29 (twice), Sep 6, 10, D Class: Aug 2, 11, Sep 29 Sep 22 and 28 D Class: Aug 27, 30 and Sep 13, Oct 3 and 29 and Oct 10 Teesmouth 17 Weston-Super-Mare Workington Tyne: Aug 9. 11, 12, 13 Trearddur Bay Atlantic 21: Aug 5, 9. 14, 15, Tyne: Aug 9 and 18 (twice), 15, 24, Sep 12, 13, Atlantic 75: Aug 1 (three 24 (twice), 28 and Sep 9 Yarmouth Isle of Wight 14 and Oct 31 times), 2, 7, 12, 13, 15, 26, D Class: Aug 5, 6 (twice), 9, Arun: Aug 2, 3, 9 (twice), 11, Teignmouth 29, Sep 3, 10, 13, 20 and 22 11 (twice), 14, 15, 19, 24 14, 15, 19, 22, 25, Sep 5 Atlantic 75: Aug 18 D Class: Aug 13 and Sep 3 (twice), 28 (twice), Sep 9 and (twice), Oct 4 and 11 (twice) Atlantic 21: Aug 9, 12, 14, 15, Troon 11 Youghal 19,31 (twice). Sep 5, 7, 13. Arun: Aug 22, Sep 16, 22, 23, Weymouth Atlantic 21. Aug 4 (three 20 and Oct 2 26, Oct 14 (twice) and 22 Arun: Aug 3, 6, 11, 12, 14, times), 7, 19 and Sep 9 Tenby Tynemouth 17, 20, 23 (twice), Sep 1,4, On Passage Tyne: Aug 9, 26 and Oct 5 Arun: Aug 6, 11, Sep 7, 16, 12, 16, 26, Oct 3 and 19 ON 1052 Arun: Aug 9 D Class: Aug 1, 7, 9, 18, 20, 18, Oct 5, 7 and 11 (twice) ON 1033 Waveney: Aug 19 26, Oct 2, 10 and 26 D Class: Aug 2, 6, 12 (twice), Atlantic 75: Aug 4, 11, 12, 14 ON 1117 Tyne: Aug 26 The Lizard 29, Sep 13, 18, Oct 2, 7 and (five times), 15, 16, 17, 20, ON 1236 Severn: Oct 11 Tyne: Aug 27 21 21, 23 (twice), 28 (twice), Sep The Mumbles Valentia 4 (twice), 18, 27, Oct 3, 19 The services listed are for those Tyne: Aug 2 (twice), 4 (twice), Severn: Aug 1, 2, 7, 12 and (twice) and 29 which returns had been received 20 (twice), 31 and Sep 25 13 Whitby at RNLI Headquarters by 27 D Class: Aug 9 (twice), 10 Walmer Trent: Aug 23, 29, Sep 14, 19, January 1999. There may be (twice), 11, 15,20,22,30, Atlantic 21: Aug 20 22, 26, Oct 7 and 15 other services for which returns Sep 5 and 11 D Class: Aug 9, 12, 13 and 14 D Class: Aug 5, 13, 14, 18 had not been received. Determining who should be entrusted with the construction of your vessel is as important as selecting it's design and overall specification. It's a matter of personal confidence. Whatever your persuasion, Power or Sail, you'll find the credentials of Bucklers Hard Boatbuilders unsurpassed in the construction and fitting out of custom designed craft. Our reputation has been established through tailoring the most successful designs to suit owner's specifications precisely, without compromising our integrity for quality and attention to detail and you will BOAT BUILDERS be pleasantly surprised how we build in value without adding to cost. For more information about Bucklers Hard Boatbuilders please call Nigel Rickman on (01590) 616214 or Fax (01590) 616267 The Choice of the • ~ discerning m •j • Full Repair & Maintenance I • Custom Build Facility (Power & Sail) • Mobile Crane up to 25 tons • Summer & Winter Lay-up/Storage • Dry Boat Sailing • Chandlery • Car Parking Bucklers Hard Boat Builders Ltd., The Agamemnon Boat Yard, Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu, Hampshire SO42 7XB 45 The Lifeboat SMALL ADS SCOTLAND 200 holiday cottages - including a Bomwlli Ijotel RAC f Hill. halm.Mll IKII 4im lighthouse - in beautiful individual locations. Tel: (01835) 870779 for Ann X Ilk welatnic >ou to Itk-n |>n\.ile ho[L-l detailed 100-page col-brochure. set 111 .1 ik'll^hllul e.ililen .'\i-il.Miknii.' I .illlloulh Ecosse Unique Ltd. Lilliesleal. Ba). Our uell .ip|ntink\l ensiiile t>nniis are lastelull> ilecoraleil lo assuie >oin nnnlnii Melrose. 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Paul & Dorrie (iianee Tel (01326) 250339 Details contact resident proprietor Lt Cdr HoielK^at Tins Purple Beachside location in small village, Alan K. Jones RNR Retd. Colour brochure Ailken-Ciiange Cruisinj: Comp.un sleeps 4-h. 1 \i ellent lor sailing, KRKANI'OKTH - fORNU \l I and tariff. Plymouth (01752) 227311 7 Norwood Drive. Sheffield. S. Yorks, S5 7BH. walking and dolphin watching. \\Veks Tel/lax 10114) M.VWW Corni\h aillajx Oecpv 4 ill I duuMe. I [win hedd^-d. lucked up or weekend lets. Tel. ((1966) 510669 iduiel lane OMIKTS ak> nlk-i Ixul Inp. Irnm Kilmimlh in Ilfracomhe, N. Devon Coast r\ R\l I Jhll WjiM«i Wh; i»< ^nd «ime nine afloat? Spacious Victorian house, sleeps 6. 3 beds. I.tike District IKemighnn^: j\ aikiMe w ilh ijujlilu-d skipper All mod. cons, sea harbour views. Availahk- I .u S.iuu-). ll.i\\kslk\iil IVacelul l.iiiuK run W(fll7J)5735H all u-ar. close to (own. 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