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Volume XLVII Number 475 The LifeboaJournal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Spring 1981t 25p mt \btur needs are simple "V Our many hundreds of industrial customers include the Dutch. German. Spanish and Swiss life boat services and all Dutch sea pilots as well as all UK TV companies and most other public services Functional "Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution "...in 1971 the RNLI adopted Functional for Offshore Stations. The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe conditions for prolonged periods." 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Wilderspool Causeway WARRINGTON Cheshire WA46QQ ^ Warrington 53111 THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1981 Content/^\ A A s Notes of the Quarter (47 Lifeboat Services 149 Vollime XT VTT Lifeboat Services, September, October and November, 1980 154 N Umber 475 Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: plated up 155 Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919, by Barbara and Reginald Yorke 156 Chairman: London Boat Show 159 THE DUKE OF ATHOLL „. ., Launching and Recovery—Part II: Beach launch, by Edward Director ana ji'cretur\: Wake-Walker,,, , ,TJ n , assistan• * t publii_i- c relationi ..• s officerr r (London/T j )\ 16<^n0 REAR ADMIRAL W. }. GRAHAM, CB MNI 'Lifeboat—In Danger's Hour' 162 Furthest North: Aith and Lerwick lifeboat stations, Shetland, by Joan Davies 164 Lifeboat People 169 Editor: Shoreline 170 JOAN DAVIES Some Ways of Raising Money 171 Headquarters". Royal National Life-boat Institution, Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers 175 West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1 HZ (Telephone Poole 71133). Letters 176 Telex: 41328 London Office: Index to Advertisers 180 Royal National Life-boat Institution, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW (Telephone 01-9284236). Editorial: All material submitted for Advertisements: All advertising consideration with a view to publica- enquiries should be addressed to tion in the journal should be addressed Dyson Advertising Services, PO Box 9, to the editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal Godalming, Surrey (Telephone National Life-boat Institution, West Godalming (04868) 23675). Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole 71133). Photographs Subscription: A year's subcription of COVER PICTURE intended for return should be accom- four issues costs £1.40, including post- Shoreham Harbour's D class inflatable panied by a stamped and addressed envelope. age, but those who are entitled to lifeboat on exercise. Inflatable lifeboats receive THE LIFEBOAT free of charge have been stationed at Shoreham for the will continue to do so. Overseas sub- summer season, from April to October, since 1967. In that time they have launched scriptions depend on the cost of 450 times anil rescued 233 people. The postage to the country concerned. photograph was taken by Peter Hadfield. Next issue: the summer issue of THE Write to RNLI, West Quay Road, There tire 92 D class inflatable lifeboats in LIFEBOAT will appear in July and news Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ. the RNLI's station fleet: 25 of them are items should be sent by the end of operational all the year round and 67 during April. News items for the autumn issue Printers: The Friary Press, Grove Trad- the summer season onlv. should be sent in by the end of July. ing Estate, Dorchester, Dorset. 145 The complete insurance and financial service for supporters of RNLI Saving for the future • Tax Consultancy • Buying a house Planning for Retirement Insure your Boat, Car or Reviewing your insurances Caravan with special or investments RNLI terms SEND FOR YOUR COPY F THE NEW BROCHURE To AEGIS INSURANCE SERVICES (GROUP) LTD., 1 am particulatlv interested in the Mowing (tick box required) .J FREEPOST, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 5BU. Please send me without obligation my personal copy Family Protection Life Assurance D Car Insurance [J of the complete insurance and investment service Review of Existing Life Assurance Plans D brochure. 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L.W.L Dinghy and/or Boat E Beam Draft _ Outboard motor £ Material of hull Personal effects £ Sail area Trailer (if required) £ TOTAL TO BE INSURED E Do you wish to cover Mast, Spars, Sails and Rigging whilst racing? If so, give replacement value E THIRD PARTY INDEMNITY in excess of the value, if so, for what amount? (The ordinary policy limits the indemnity in respect of claims by Do you require an excess in the policy, it so, for what amount? Third Parties to the insured value of the vessel.) (i.e.: you bear the first so much of each claim). E Make of Engine(s). What cruising range is to be covered? Date ; marine engine State if conversion State period for which the vessel is to be insured: outboard Designed maximum speed (a) in commission Fuel used for main and auxiliary machinery _ (a) months from to Is Calor or other bottled gas used? If so, state material of delivery tubing (b) laid up (a) months from . .to. What fire extinguishers are kept on board (a) Where is the vessel moored when in commission? (b) Where will she be laid up? (c) Will the vessel be laid up (i) ashore? (ii) in mud berth? (iii) afloat? What accidents have you had during the past five years in connection with any vessel you have sailed or owned that would give rise to a • claim? /STiT\ " Give particulars ^K Aree you entitled to N.u.u.N.C.D.v? _ RNLI 04/81 Whatever your insurance and investment needs, AEGIS will advise you I 146 One of a series of six paint- ings prepared in the RNLI display studio at Poole by Hilary Dear and David Simmons for the Indian Chief centenary exhibition at Ramsgate Harbour's Clock House. This painting, by David Simmons, taken from an old print, shows Rams- gate lifeboat, Bradford, leaving harbour under tow of the tug Vulcan in the severe gales of January 5, 1881. included in the new book Lifeboat—In also common in the commercial field as Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth well as in that of sea rescue. (see pages 162 and 163). Since Admiral Hoare's experiments in the 1960s, hundreds of lives have Thanks to Admiral Hoare been saved by Atlantic class lifeboats. NOTES OF The Committee of Management has resolved that the Institution's sincere Indian Chief exhibition THE QUARTER thanks on vellum be accorded to Rear The centenary of the Indian Chief Admiral Desmond Hoare in recognition rescue carried out by the Ramsgate of his valuable co-operation and skill as lifeboat Bradford in 1881, and for The world's first lifeboat station? a designer of the rigid-hulled inflatable which the gold medal was awarded to Until recently it has been accepted lifeboat concept and for his services to Coxswain Charles Fish, is being that the world's first lifeboat station the Institution as a member of the marked by an exhibition in Ramsgate was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, Committee of Management.