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Lifeboats •Loval National Lilebodl Institution \ E Win Enea Mu Wings •^-^ «-^ Let This Uplifting Melody Inspire You For everyone who helps save lives at sea Summer 2002 va National Lifeboat Ins' r 1 I Her Majesty opeffg her Gokteajybjjge celebrations with a visit to name the new lifeboat at Falmouth Lifeboats •loval National Lilebodl Institution \ e win enea mu wings •^-^ «-^ Let this uplifting melody inspire you Inscribed inside the lid is a message that lasts a lifetime for a daughter Sculptural porcelain butterfly with shimmering gold mother accents graces the lid sister friend Six Sparkling Swarovski crystals gratiddaugh ter grandmother 22-carat gold bands, 22-carat gold-finished feet and delicate golden \ heading REMARKABLE VALUE AT JUST £24.95 (+p&p) 7^ Actual size approximate!]! 3W inches wide created from the delicate watercolour-on-silk paintings of Lena Liu 080065U999 mile Rrlcrcnic. 178643 t takes an artist of rare talent and insight to capture the beauty PRIORITY RESERVATION FORM Iand grace of butterflies as well as a sense of the freedom they "Flights of Fancy" inspire. 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Offer jppliti UK only jnd Biubj«' to availability. Bradford Editions [ id. 1 ( j\ili Vjr.l. Ki, Im, %%g B«JM EJi X Sumy'W10 6T1-. Full icimi anil ionJn urns imLihlton rcqucu. Summer 2002 In this issue News The magazine of the Including the naming of Falmouth lifeboat by Her Majesty Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Queen and her Golden Jubilee celebrations West Quay Road, Poole. Dorset BH15 1HZ Letters Tel: 01202 663000 www.lifeboats.org.uk Email: [email protected] Feature Moving inland 10 Registered Charity Number 209603 The RNLI's first inland lifeboat station celebrated its first A busy first year at birthday in May - Sam McCreery and Archie Birrelloi Lough Erne. Issue 560 Enniskillen in Northern Ireland look back over a busy year Page W. Chairman: Peter Nicholson Lifeboats in action 14 Chief Executive: Andrew Freemantle MBE Fergal Walsh of Ballycotton is awarded the first Silver Medal of the millennium for saving the life of a drowning Editor: Jane Smythson man and Nick Beale of Porthcawl is awarded Bronze for Assistant Editor: Jon Jones helping to save the life of a fisherman Editorial: W: 01202 663188 The crew 27 Fax: 01202 663189 Email: [email protected] Silver medallist Fergal The annual meetings 2002 28 Walsh of Ballycotton Membership and subscriptions: Page 14. Tel: 01202 663234 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on year of great Email: [email protected] achievements and sets out plans for the future Advertising: Madison Bell Limited Feature Zetland lifeboat - 200 years 38 Beau Nash House, Union Passage, Historian Dave Phillipson looks at the history of a Bath BA1 1RD Display: remarkable lifeboat Steve Hulbert: 01225 465060 Classified: Kate Eastman: 01225 465060 Feature Old friends... 34 Email: [email protected] The Lifeboat Fund has been raising money for the RNLl m for 140 years - we look at the story behind our longest Sir Richard Branson (fte Lifeboat is published Iou( times a year presents the awards. • Iree to RNLf membefs and standing supporter go»mors The next issue will be Autumn 2002 Page 28 no wtH appear in October 2002. Ntws items should be received by 23 August, Fundraising 36 butMrlier if possible Alt material submitted for pow&e publication should be addressed to; How some of the money is raised The Editor, the Lifeboat. RNLl. W«it Quay flwKi, Poola, Dorset BH15 1HZ. .iphs intended for return should be Listings Central pull-out section Keompanied by a stamped, addressed mmtooe Contributions may be held for jutoecuent issues and. to reduce costs, i -KC'c; will not usually be acknowledged ir*v requested. si information on how lo join the RNU ei or governor contact The oldest surviving Any pfoducts or services advertised in the Lifeboat by third parties are not in any way j^j^Hretiip, RNLl. West Quay Road. Poole, lifeboat in the world. •;H151HZ. Tel 0800 543210 endorsed by the RNLl and the RNLl shall not be responsible tor the accuracy of any information contained in such advertisements nor has it investigated or verified any of Page 38. From cov«r the information ". Queen boards Fal mouth's : oat after naming her Richard j^j^j^fttion 1 May 2002 See pages 2 and 3 the Lifeboat is published by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Designed by Blue Frog, 2-4 Rufus Street. Hoxton. London N1 6PE. ^^^^Hbrwn Culliford Printed by The Pofestar Group Limited. Colchester. lifoHrtfitc rhrn . lf-1 names Falmouth lifeboat Coxswain Alan Barnes The first of May 2002 was a very special day for the construction, before being escorted out onto the presents the Falmouth RNLI, Falmouth lifeboat station and the county of seaward front of this magnificent new building. crew to Her Majesty. Cornwall. Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by The Queen and the Duke were then presented to Picture: Simon Cullitord the Duke of Edinburgh, started her Golden Jubilee Peter Nicholson, Chairman of the RNLI; Andrew tour of Great Britain in Cornwall and one of her first Freemantle, Chief Executive; Bernard Fox, chairman engagements was the naming of Falmouth's new of Falmouth station branch; Tricia Barnes, chairman Severn class lifeboat Richard Cox Scott, of Falmouth RNLI guild; and Graham Pearce, station It is only the fourth time a reigning monarch has honorary secretary of Falmouth station. named a lifeboat, the previous three occasions being The Queen was then escorted onto the pontoon The Royal British Legion Jubilee, at Henley in 1972; below where Falmouth's new Severn class lifeboat The Scout at Hartlepool in 1977, during the Queen's and the Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat were berthed, Silver Jubilee Celebration; and Her Majesty the with the lifeboat crew lining the pontoon. The Queen, at Ramsgate in 1993. walkway overlooking the pontoon was lined with the The Queen and the Duke arrived in Falmouth on RNLI's guests, including representatives of the the royal train and disembarked to a 21-gun salute lifeboat's donors, the crew's families and the from HMS Cornwall, which was moored in Falmouth station's branch and guild. harbour. The royal party then toured the new National The Queen was then presented to Falmouth's Maritime Museum Cornwall, which is still under coxswain, Alan Barnes who, in turn, introduced each www.lifeboats.org.uk Commercial fishing alert Each year over 20 British and Irish fishermen die while out fishing. This is despite fishing vessels making up only 14% of all lifeboat services. To combat this terrible loss of life, the RNLI is offering safety seminars and practical demonstrations to help raise fishermen's understanding of safety matters. A fishing safety roadshow will travel around the countries' main fishing ports helping to keep fishermen HM The Queen breaks the traditional champagne bottle against the lifeboat as safe. As well as practical activities, they will give out RNLI Chairman Peter Nicholson looks on. Picture: Simon Cuiiiford fishing safety booklets and general water safety information. of the boat's officers. Peter harbour. The lifeboat then Nicholson then invited Her proceeded to the Prince of Wales Ian Benham, the RNLI's water safety manager, says: 'We Majesty to name Falmouth's new Pier where the royal party have spent the last year consulting with the industry and lifeboat in the traditional manner, disembarked to continue its tour fishermen have given us some suggestions on where we by breaking a bottle of champagne of Cornwall. can help. The lifeboat service is committed to doing all it over her bow. The Queen then The £1.8m cost of the lifeboat can to help reduce deaths and serious accidents in the had a brief conversation with the was principally funded by a fishing industry.' crew of the Atlantic 21 lifeboat bequest from Ruth Marygold Dix before Stacie Nicoll, the 6-year-old Scott, who passed away in May daughter of the station's senior 1998, bequeathing her residuary helmsman, presented her with a estate to the RNLI.
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