The Lifeboat Journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Autumn 1984 30P

Volume XLIX Number 489 The Lifeboat Journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Autumn 1984 30p Swsk-. •.. ™ Municipal Life Assurance announces a unique new fund-raising campaign in partnership with the R.N.L.I. How your investment in a top-performing unit trust or savings plan will help to pay for a new R.N. L.I. lifeboat. ' I ""oday there is a greater need than ever for public L support of the R.N.L.I. With the growing popu- larity of recreation by and on the sea and the continuing need to provide a service to commercial and fishing vessels, the R.N. L. I. are engaged in a ceaseless struggle to improve the standards of their work. For, of course, when we are talking about saving lives, nothing less than perfection can be adequate. And that is why there is always a need for new and more advanced Lifeboats. Now an imaginative agreement has been concluded between Municipal Life Assurance and the R.N.L.I. This appeal me-a joint venture between Municipal Life which will help to raise much needed funds for a new- andti. .V.L.I •-is designed to raise money for a new Lifebife Assurance Lifeboat. •boat. Municipal Life Assurance will contribute to this Unit Trust via a new scheme: Munipayer, which R.N.L.I. funds even7 time any member or supporter is designed to offer both capital growth and "tax- of R.N.L.I. decides to invest through M.L.A. Unit free" regular withdrawals. Trust or a unit-linked insurance policy. ...OR SAVINGS PLAN You will see details of one Municipal Life Assurance plan in an insert included in this issue of the magazine. Municipal Life Assurance also have a high per- However, you may wonder why the R.N.L.I. are formance savings plan which is designed to give a doing this, and why with Municipal Life Assurance in good return on your investment. It also gives you life particular? assurance protection. This plan can provide you with Franklv, any scheme which will increase the a "tax-free" lump sum in 10 years, or "tax-free" reg- R.N.L.I'.s funds and, at the same time, be attractive ular withdrawals. to you as a supporter, makes sense. By dealing directly with you, Municipal HOW TO HELP YOURSELF AND THE R.N.L.I. Life Assurance are able to reduce their marketing costs, and are happy to To: Municipal Life Assurance Ltd., Freepost, reflect this in the contribution which Maidstone,ME14 IBR-Tel: 0622-671977. they make to the R.N.L.I. (Freepost means that you do not need a stamp] Yes: I would like to know more about Munipayer, NEW INVESTMENT SCHEME... your new Investment Scheme D The M.L.A. Unit Trust, Yes: I would like to know more about your launched in 1976, came but this Savings Scheme D Our target for this Lifeboat Please send me, without obligation, full details to Appeal is £100,000. We will August as {he top performer be using thisflagpok to keep amongst all the U.K. General review at my leisure. I understand no salesman will you informed on progress. call The first £18,000 has Trusts on the market over 3, 5 already been donated by and 7 years. Name Municipal Life Assurance. But remember that unit values Date of Birth can fall as well as rise. Whilst past performance cannot necessarily be Address taken as a guide to the future, the performance of our management group is clearly well above average. Had you invested £10,000 at the launch of this Trust in 1976, eight years later that £10,000-with the income Postcode —— — reinvested-would have grown to £102,893. RXLi SUPPORTING THE LIFEBOATS Now investors have the opportunity to invest in THE LIFEBOAT Autumn 1984 Notes of the Quarter 74 Lifeboat Services 77 Volume XUX *M~11TviVipi* 4RO Naming Ceremonies and Dedications 83 Working Together: helicopters and lifeboats 89 Chairman: Lifeboat People 94 THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: Used Postage Stamps and Covers 94 REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Shoreline 95 Here and There 96 Editor: Books 97 JOAN DAVIES Some Ways of Raising Money 99 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Letters 104 West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 Sim?0"6 P°°le (02°2) 6?1133)' Lifeboat Services, March, April and May, 1984 105 Ro^Nadonal Lifeboat Institution, Open Days, Poole HQ and Depot 107 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW (Telephone 01-928 4236). Index to Advertisers 108 Editorial: All material submitted for Advertisements: All advertising en- consideration with a view to publication quiries should be addressed to Dyson in the journal should be addressed to Advertising Services, PO Box 9, God- the editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal Nation- aiming, Surrey (Telephone Godalming al Lifeboat Institution, West Quay (04868) 23675). Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Tele- phone Poole (0202) 671133). Photo- graphs intended for return should be Subscription: A year's subscription of accompanied by a stamped and addres- four issues costs £3.00, including post- sed envelope. age, but those who are entitled to COVER PICTURE receive THE LIFEBOAT free of charge will continue to do so. Overseas sub- The 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay, stationed at Newcastle, County Down, North- scriptions depend on the cost of postage ern Ireland. She was built in 1964 and was to the country concerned. Write to originally at St Abbs in Scotland, later enter- Next issue: the Winter issue of THE RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset ing the relief fleet. Jane Hay arrived at LIFEBOAT will appear in January and BH15 1HZ. Newcastle in 1980 and during her lifetime has news items should be sent by the end of been launched on service 59 times, saving a October. News items for the Spring total oj'20 lives. The photograph was taken by issue should be sent in by the end of Printers: The Friary Press, Bridport Colin Watson. January. Road, Dorchester, Dorset. 73 Kinghorn, St Ives, St Bees and Rye 6in Solent lifeboat, City of Birmingham. Harbour while two are for the relief Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, direc- fleet. tor of the RNLI, presented a centenary Letter designations are used for life- vellum to Mr R. Oxley, chairman of the boats under 10 metres in length. A class branch. Since the station was founded lifeboats are rigid hulled boats, such as in 1884, Walton and Frinton lifeboats the 18ft 6in McLachlan and the 17ft 6in have launched on service 806 times Dell Quay Dory; B class lifeboats are saving 796 people. the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatables. Since the introduction of the first inflatable boats into the RNLI's fleet in New C of M members 1963, lifeboats under 10 metres have, Three new members have recently between them, rescued more than been elected to the Committee of Man- 12,000 people. agement: Mr Richard Douglas, MP; Admiral Sir Rae McKaig, KCB CBE, and Solomon Browne flagstaff Mr J. A. H. Paffett, RCNC cnng FRINA Carpenters in the RNLI depot at HOnFNI FRSA. Poole have made a flagstaff from the Mr Richard Douglas is the Labour remains of the former Penlee lifeboat and Co-operative member of Parlia- NOTES OF Solomon Browne. It is made of pieces ment for Dunfermline West. He is a of every type of wood used in the qualified marine engineer and has been THE QUARTER lifeboat to perpetuate the memory of a director of Ferguson Brothers (Port the lifeboatmen who were lost in the Glasgow) since 1975. Mr Douglas has Penlee disaster in December 1981. The been much concerned in education and TWIN ENGINED inflatable lifeboats have flagstaff is to be placed in Truro has been an honorary lecturer at the been designated the C class. This is to Cathedral, where the RNLI memorial University of Strathclyde since 1980. distinguished them from the single en- service to the memory of the Penlee Admiral Sir Rae McKaig is chairman gined 15ft 6in D class inflatables, well lifeboatmen and those lost in MV Union and chief executive of Gray Mackenzie known all round the coast. All C class Star was held in February, 1982. and Co and a director of Inchcape pic. boats at the moment are 17ft 6in Zodiac He had a distinguished naval career, Mk IV hulls with twin 40hp outboard Walton and Frinton centenary serving as Flag Officer, Plymouth, and engines and most of the class have a Walton and Frinton lifeboat station Port Admiral, Devonport, from 1970 to limited night capability. At present celebrated its centenary at a rededica- 1973 and UK military representative to there are C class lifeboats at St Abbs, tion service on June 13. The Lord NATO from 1973 to 1975. Admiral Portaferry, Mudeford, Aberystwyth, Lieutenant of Essex, Admiral Lewis, McKaig is a member of the Royal Criccieth (see photograph on opposite was joined at the ceremony by the Lord Ocean Racing Club. page), Newquay (Cornwall), Culler- Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Birming- Mr James Paffett, a consultant in coats and St Catherine, with one boat in ham, Councillor and Mrs Hales, repre- naval architecture, is chairman of the the relief fleet. Six more C class boats senting the people of the city who raised RNLFs Technical Consultative Com- are building; four will go on station, at the money for the station's present 48ft mittee and a member of the Boat photograph by courtesy of Herald Express, Torquay HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats.

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