Lifeboat Institution Volume XLIX Number 494 the Lifeboat Winter 1985/6 Rugged in the Extreme: Thurso and Wick 30P Fast Carriage Boat Takes Shape Summertime Gales
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Journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Volume XLIX Number 494 The Lifeboat Winter 1985/6 Rugged in the extreme: Thurso and Wick 30p Fast carriage boat takes shape Summertime gales 1 REVOLUTIONARY INVESTMENT CONCEPT Why invest in just ONE investment company, when you could invest in the pick of the best? magine an investment that I produces ll.V'n growth. Brian Stuart: (iroup Or 2S. i"n. In just 6 months! Investment Manager, Fvcn at hall these figures. comments \\c can stand these would he exceptional back and select markets results Yet they are actual re which have potential for turns Not from obscure shares The new** MLA Fiv*e Star Fund doing well in outof-thc-way markets, hut It may be from two leading I nil Trusts links your investment to a Hong Kong. (Source: Planned Savings. 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(^HiccM strt-t-t Westminster s\\ | Kcj; \o SH «>1M i KM.1 l Hh Royal National THE Lifeboat LIFEBOAT Institution Winter 1985/86 Contents RNLI News. 254 Lifeboat Services. 256 Volume XLIX Rugged in the Extreme. Number 494 Caithness Lifeboat Stations: Thurso and Wick by Joan Davies 263 Chairman: Shoreline. 269 THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: Fast from a Carriage. The fast REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI carriage lifeboat takes shape.... 270 Ceremonies 272 Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Letters 273 West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole (0202) 671133). Telex: 41328. People and Places 274 London Offices: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW (Telephone 01-928 4236). Books. 277 Advertisement Manager: COLIN PEGLEY Jackson-Rudd & Associates, Oldebourne The Lifeboat Service - past and present, 278 House, 46-47 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JB (Telephone 01-405 3611/2 and 405 2860). The Fund Raisers 279 Printers: The Friary Press, Bridport Road, Lifeboat Services. June and July 1985 285 Dorchester, Dorset. COVER PICTURE Subscription: A year's subscription of January. News items for the Summer A night launch of Hoylake's 37ft 6in Rather four issues costs £3.00, including post- issue should be sent in by the end of class lifeboat, Mary Gabriel. Hoylake is one age, but those who are entitled to April. of the RNLI's 23 stations where a lifeboat receive THE LIFEBOAT free of charge will over ten metres in length is launched by continue to do so. Overseas sub- Editorial: All material submitted for tractor and carriage. The tractor in this scriptions depend on the cost of postage consideration with a view to publication picture is the first of a new type of tractor to the country concerned. Write to in the journal should be addressed to specifically designed for the task of launching RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset the editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal Nation- carriage lifeboats. It is fully waterproof and is BH15 1HZ. al Lifeboat Institution, West Quay driven by a diesel hydraulic system using a 200hp Caterpillar 3208 NA engine. The Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Tele- photograph was kindly supplied by M. A. phone Poole (0202) 671133). Photo- Bigland (Preparations) Ltd of Knighton, Next issue: the Spring issue of THE graphs intended for return should be Powys, who built and developed the tractor in LIFEBOAT will appear in April and news accompanied by a stamped and addres- co-operation with the RNLI. items should be sent by the end of sed envelope. 253 who has an interest in lifeboats to head for Dorset and be shown the workings of headquarters which supplies the back-up to the 200 lifeboat stations and 2,000 fund raising branches of the RNLI. As well as static displays and guided tours, there will be lifeboats to look over and demonstrations by some of the most modern lifeboats off the depot quay. Open Days are from 10 am to 6 pm on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 July 1986. Lifeboat rescues ex-PM Mr Charles Haughey, the leader of Eire's Fianna Fail opposition party and former prime minister, was rescued by Baltimore lifeboat last September after his 40 foot yacht struck a rock in thick fog and sank near Mizzen Head. Mr Haughey, his son and three other crew members took to a liferaft and dinghy and were eventually picked up, unhar- med, three hours later. Colour on parade The RNLI ceremonial colour re- ceived its dedication during the Annual Hail ... to the new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, City of Belfast (above), recently stationed at Service of the Sea at Poole Parish Donaghadee, County Down. So far, some £173,000 of the £390,000 it cost to build her has been Church on Sunday October 27, 1985. defrayed by a special appeal launched by the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Chairman of Belfast The dedication was performed by Canon Harbour Commissioners to every man, woman and child in Northern Ireland. City of Belfast is John Potter, Rector of Poole parish, and the 33rd Arun class to enter the RNLI's fleet and there are three more currently under the colour paraded by Coxswain Victor construction Marsh of Swanage with lifeboatmen John .