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Port St Mary crew head out for their Trent class lifeboat Gough Ritchie II Pictu'9. RiC* Tomlmson/floysl Bank of Scotland In this issue THE LIKE-BOAT. ifeboats News 2 fcva National bteboal ir ' •lagazme of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Letters 9
West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH1 5 1HZ Feature Advancing a great cause 10 Tel 01202663000 www.lifeboats.org.uk A review of the 150 year history of the Lifeboat magazine Email: info@rn|j.org.uk Lifeboats in action 14 Registered Charity Number 209603 The first issue of Award-winning rescues - including the first award for an the Lifeboat. Issue 559 RNLI lifeguard Page 10.
Chairman: Peter Nicholson The lifeboat fleet 23 Chief Executive: A complete list of RNLI lifeboats Andrew Freemantle MBE
Editor: Jane Smythson Feature The Royal Charter tragedy 26 Assistant Editor: Jon Jones The story of the first Gold Medal to be reported in Editorial: the Lifeboat magazine Tel: 01 202 6631 88 Fix: 01202 663189 Email: [email protected] Feature The Caister Life-boat disaster 30 The Royal Charter On the 100th anniversary of the disaster, we look back at tragedy of 1859. Page 26. Membership and subscriptions: the account from the Lifeboat of the day Tel: 01 202 663234 Email: sportsmouth@rnli, org.uk Feature Expansion and consolidation 34 Advertising: Madison Bell Limited An extract from Ian Cameron's history of the RNLI Beau Nash House, Union Passage, BA1 1RD The Crew 37 Display: Steve Hulbert: 01225465060 Classified: Feature Building into the millennium 38 Kate Eastman: 01225 465060 Email: [email protected] Shoreworks manager Howard Richings completes his journey around RNLI boathouses The Caister lifeboat the Lifeboat is published four times a year •••it tree to RNLI members and disaster of 1901. governors The next issue will be Summer 2002 Page 30. ^Hl appear in Jury 2002 Station Profile Weymouth 43
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information on how to jcnn the RNLI • •member or governor contact Umeership. RNLI. West Quay Road. Poole. Any products or services advertised in the Lifeboat by third parties are not in any way Boathouses from Aith Dow BH151 HZ. Tel. 08005-13210. endorsed bv the RNLI and the RNLI shall not be responsible for the accuracy of any to Eyemouth. information contained m such advertisements nor has it investigated or verified any of Page 38. Front covtr the information. To mark us 150th anniversary, t/w Lif«bo*t moazine looks back over (he changes in the .. : thai lime the Lifeboat is published by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. KMi design- KB Printers Designed by Blue Frog, 2-4 Rufus Street, Hoxton. London NI 6PE. Printed by The Polestar Group Limited, Colchester. www.lifeboats.org.uk for Thames lifeboat At midday on 2 January 2002, RNLI lifeboats became operational on the River Thames. For the first time, the capital has a 24-hour dedicated rapid response service on its river. There are four lifeboat stations, at Gravesend, Tower Pier, Chiswick and Teddington. The first three are manned continuously to provide an immediate response. Teddington operates using volunteers, in the same way as the 223 other RNLI stations around our coasts.
Picture: RNLI/Chiswick It was not long before the need for the new lifeboat stations was shown. The first call came almost as soon as the stations went live and the four Thames lifeboats responded to 14 shouts in the first two days of operation. By mid-March there had been 115 incidents. Tower Pier had responded to 46 callouts, Chiswick 44, Teddington 13 and Gravesend 12. This puts Tower Pier and Chiswick well on the way to being the RNLI's busiest stations: the busiest station in 2000. Weymouth (see page 43), answered 113 shouts over the year. Clearly the message 'dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard' is getting through, thanks to a publicity campaign including media coverage, advertising and volunteers handing out prompt cards during London lifeboat week.
www.lifeboats.org.uk Can you take good photos... The RNLI is looking for professional photographers or talented Some of the Tower Pier crew picture: John Dee amateurs to act on an occasional, freelance basis to keep its image library up to date. You will need your own equipment, shooting on 35mm print film, Since the launch in January, RNLI It seems clear that the four not digital. You will need to be comfortable near or on the water lifeboats have been involved in Thames stations will have a high as well as around crews or dignitaries. In addition, you will need several high-profile incidents. profile. Their position in the capital, to be able to travel to all parts of your region, which are Chiswick and Teddington lifeboats together with the large number of sometimes quite remote. saved five people from floods on services they cover, means that If you think you fit the bill and would like to be involved in future 28 February, including a 15- the full-time and volunteer crews photo shoots for the RNLI, please send a maximum of six will soon be used to seeing their month-old baby and a three-year- uncropped 15cm x 10cm colour print examples of appropriate old boy. names in the paper. images - these do not need to be lifeboat related - together Heavy rain and the high spring Some of the crew will find this with your own full contact details, including a daytime telephone tide had led to extensive flooding. easier than others. Potential crew number to: members undergoing evaluation Chiswick lifeboat was patrolling at Pix Like These. PR Department, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Putney Hard when it received and training include actors from Dorset BH151 HZ reports of a woman and two small Casualty and The Bill. So the time Closing date: 10 May 2002. Entries can only be returned if you children who had been swept into may come when an actor, who include a stamped, addressed envelope. the water at Petershams Ait. plays a policeman, but is also a The lifeboat found three lifeboatman, rescues a stranded women and two children close to sailor and hands him over to an .. .or give safety advice to sailors? Glovers Island. By now the actor, who plays a doctor, and is The RNLI is looking for enthusiastic volunteer safety advisers to Teddington lifeboat had arrived also a lifeboatman, who can give help give sea users free safety advice in the southwest. Teams of and rescued the two children and him first aid. Is that clear? advisers will be offering sea safety advice from popular launching sites throughout the region and additional volunteers are needed their au pair. The three casualties to help cover new areas and to boost the teams at existing sites were put aboard the Chiswick E along the south coast between Weymouth and Chichester. class lifeboat and treated for the cold. Meanwhile, the You don't need any experience to volunteer, just be keen to help pass on advice that could help to save lives at sea. You will be Teddington boat rescued the given full training on how to give safety information to users of other two women. all types of craft, ranging from jet skis to dinghies. Volunteer All five casualties were advisers need to be over 17, able to communicate well with transferred to a Port of London people and able to spare one Saturday or Sunday once a month Authority launch, which had a during the busy boating times. Anyone wanting to volunteer can heated cabin. A Chiswick contact the RNLI sea safety team on freefone 0800 328 0600 for crew member went with an information pack them to administer first For more information, visit the website at aid. Fortunately, all www.lifeboats.org.uk five made a full recovery. Lifeboat launches live on the web By the time this edition is published, ;T,V:__^, ., * supporters will be able to see which lifeboats have launched around the country, simply by looking at the RNLl's award winning web site. This exciting development is the direct " result of the paging system (COACSl for crews that has recently been installed around the UK and Republic of Ireland. Whenever a lifeboat is launched, the system sends an email message to the website and the relevant station begins to flash red on the web site maps. After an hour, the flashing stops, but the station remains red for the next 23 hours, before returning to its normal colour. The whole system ts remarkably simple, but for the first time, both the RNLl's HQ and our supporters can see exactly what is happening around the coast. So why not take a look and see what is happening right now.
www.lifeboats.org.uk head Goodbye to the The RNLI Strategic Plan Wessex outlines the lifeboat service's main activities Lifeboats from Larne, Donaghadee and Bangor, in Northern Ireland, and objectives for took part in an air/sea rescue display in Bangor this February. The 2002 - 2006 and ceremony marked the retirement from service of the Royal Air Force includes an amended Wessex helicopter. The Wessex had provided back-up search and mission statement and rescue cover in Northern Ireland for over 30 years until its retirement a financial summary. from service on 31 March. Primary search and rescue cover in The new plan differs Northern Ireland is provided by Royal Navy and RAF Sea King from previous editions, helicopters based at Prestwick, in Scotland, and RAF Valley, North with the main activities Wales. The Sea King is a specialised search and rescue helicopter split into eight with crews specifically trained for that purpose. They have the ability definitive sections to fly, day and night, in extreme weather and for a great distance. reflecting the different Typically, a Sea King can be launched within 10 minutes during the aspects of the RNLI's day and 30 minutes at night. work. Each section (Front to back): Bangor Atlantic 21 lifeboat Youth of Ulster, Lame Trent class begins with an overview that is broken down into a lifeboat Dr John McSparran and Donaghadee Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast number of specific targets to be achieved over the next five years. The plan also marks the introduction of key performance indicators, which will help to measure the RNLI's overall effectiveness. If you would like to receive a copy of the plan, please send an A5 stamped addressed envelope to: The RNLI Strategic Plan, Corporate Services Department, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ. Offshore boost Olympic sailing gold medallist Shirley Robertson MBE has joined Offshore, the RNLI membership for all those who use the sea. Shirley said: 'Joining Offshore means that as a sailor, I am The Lame lifeboat crew with Royal Navy Sea King helicopter HMS Gannet, supporting the fantastic based at RNAS Prestwick, Scotland work of the RNLI. I believe that anyone who goes on the water may at some point need the services of the RNLI. If I can help to support the charity and the volunteer crews through Offshore, then that's great.' Shirley was among nearly 600 people who joined Offshore at the London Boat Show, held at Earls Court in January. This brought the total number of Offshore members to around 38,000.
org.uk The boathouse at Largs demonstrates why the RNLt shoreworks department has a deserved reputation for the excellent quality of their buildings. Despite a severe pounding from the ferocious sea, no damage was done, the building did not flood and the souvenir shop was able to reopen as soon as the weather improved. Picture: Andrew Bara. Scottish sun RNLI proposes constitutional change Over the past year considerable The main changes are these: The Standing Committees work has been undertaken in The RNLI's formal title is 'The will be known as Advisory amending and updating the Royal National Lifeboat Committees and will guide RNLI's Royal Charter and Bye- Institution for the Preservation and advise the chief executive Laws, which are its governing of Life from Shipwreck'. After and senior management team instruments. These amendments, the AGM the formal title will in various specialist aspects of which have recently been agreed be just The Royal National the RNLI'swork. by the Executive Committee and Lifeboat Institution • The retirement age from all the Committee of Management, The 'objects clause' has been committees has been reduced will be put to the Governors for widened to allow the to 70. There will be transitional their approval at the Annual Institution to provide a service arrangements over the next General Meeting in May. They will on inland waters as well as at five years as this new rule then go for formal approval to the sea, and to carry out non- takes effect. Charity Commission and to the lifesaving roles, such as • In general, the opportunity has Privy Council. However, as both medivac and flood relief. been taken to simplify the these bodies have been involved The titles and functions of the Charter and Bye-Laws and to in the drafting, the Institution committees have been widen the powers of the does not anticipate any problems. clarified. The Committee of Trustees. Widening the powers The need to amend the Charter Management will become The does not mean that the was brought about by the RNLI's Council. The Council will be Trustees will necessarily move into inland waters and the the electoral college for the choose to use these powers. increasing work in flood relief. Trustees. It will also have the They are there for future use if The present Charter only allows responsibility of guiding and circumstances dictate. for activities 'at sea'. However, advising the Trustees. It is hoped that this widened having started the process, it The Executive Committee and modernised document will be seemed an ideal opportunity to go becomes the Trustee able to serve the purpose of good a step further and see if other Committee and will have the governance for the RNLI for at areas could be modernised or full responsibility for directing least the next 15 or 20 years broadened in scope. the policies of the RNLI. without revision. Reli&f fleer Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future The last of its Brede Picture: RichTomlinson The last remaining RNLI Brede class lifeboat has retired from service. The last of the intermediate class lifeboats, at Calshot lifeboat station, was decommissioned in December 2001 when the station was allocated an Arun class lifeboat. The relocation of the Arun Margaret Russell Fraser will improve the cover provided in the busy Solent area. The Brede class was restricted to operating in conditions not exceeding gale force 8. The Arun class lifeboat has no launching limitation. Although there are no longer any Brede class lifeboats operating in the RNLI, many former RNLI boats are now operating abroad, in countries as far afield as South Africa and Australia. Pam Rhodes Full house presents Public Relations Awards
Television presenter Pam Rhodes presented the RNLI's prestigious annual Public Relations Awards at a ceremony in London in January. t The lifeboat service relies on maintaining a high public profile in 96th lifeboat lottery order to attract volunteers to crew George Duffy, Ian Sheridan, David the lifeboats and help raise the Howard and Aaron Howard from £100m a year it costs to run the Howth lifeboat station and Paul lifeboat service. Gamble from Fowey were invited The Public Relations Awards, to pick the winning tickets in the which recognise exceptional 96th Lifeboat Lottery. The five crew individual or group contributions members, accompanied by Darren X\ rare chance to see five FtNLI in promoting the lifeboat service, Scully, divisional technician Ireland, lifeboats together. The occasion was a fall into four categories. This were attending pre-commissioning visit by the Dutch lifeboat sen/ice on year's winners are: training for Trent mechanics at the 13 January. Broadcast Media: training centre in Poole. L-R; Relief fleet Tyne class lifeboat Pamela Ballentine, Ulster TV Top prize in the draw was Good Shepherd, Arbroath Mersey £3,000 of Thomas Cook holiday Print Media: vouchers, which was won by Mrs class lifeboat Inchcape, Monfrose DC Thomson, publishers Tyne class lifeboat Moonbeam, VM Ayling of East Sussex. Broughty Ferry Trent class lifeboat Display/Audio Visual: Second prize of £1,000 cash was Elizabeth of Glamis and (front) Merseyside Maritime Museum won by Miss M Lewis from Arbroath D class lifeboat Special Category: Peterborough. In total the 96th Coachmakers of London Gerry Nagle, Euro RSCG (Ireland) RNLI lottery raised £177.856.
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Inver House Not just boats, you know RNLI United? Distillers, the Your article on the Thames makers of Old The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat lifeboats (winter 2001/02) Pulteney whisky, have kindly agreed showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, mentions the Thames Ironworks, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly Shipbuilding and Engineering to give away a identified this as an RAF helicopter. While I can fully understand Company of Canning Town, who bottle of the genuine maritime the general perception of the public that all that flies must be RAF, made many of the early lifeboats. malt to our 'Letter we in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy are justifiably proud of The workers in that company of the quarter'. So our Search and Rescue capabilities and thought your readers formed a football team, which the if you've got any might be interested in the following. RNLI staff member may have Of the 14 Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter bases around the watched or played in. That team burning issues to get off your chest coastline only two of these, at Culdrose and at Gannet, in Ayrshire, still plays to this day but they are are Royal Navy. However, these two units were the busiest in the now called West Ham United! about lifeboats or a related subject, put country last year with figures of 255 and 246 rescue missions Bert Anderson your pen to paper respectively. Indeed, these two units carried out over a quarter of By email and send your all SAR missions for the country and 771 squadron alone letter to: contributed one sixth of UK SAR total rescue missions. DelJohnson 771 Squadron operates from Hartland Point on the north Devon Your Letters, coast, right around Lands End, east to Start Point, south of The award of a Bar to a Gold the Lifeboat RNLI, Brixham, and to a range of 240 miles out into the south-west Badge is a rare honour, given to West Quay Road, approaches. This area covers many popular sailing areas and an.outstanding personality. Such a Poole, important fishing grounds, where a fair proportion of our trade is man was Del Johnson, whose Dorset BH151HZ taken from. sudden death at the end of Your publication is not alone in mistaking our aircraft for RAF - October 2001 you recorded in or email us at television and radio are also forever getting it wrong - but please your last issue. [email protected] inform your readers that in case of difficulty it is almost as likely When I joined the Penlee All letters intended that it will be the boys in DARK blue coming to their aid, and not committee in 1962, Del was for consideration our sideways-walking relations! assistant to the honorary secretary should be clearly Lieutenant Roger Brook Jack Bennetts. Soon he became marked 'For 771 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, HELSTON, Cornwall honorary secretary and continued Publication'. Oh dear. Roger was one of many who spotted our error. We hope that until 1989. He was always a hard the bottle of Old Purteney whisky currently winging its way to RNAS worker. Much of what he did was Culdrose will be compensation to him and his brave colleagues. carried out away from the limelight and his life was rooted in service to his local community. Sweet dreams -thanks to the RNLI The Penlee disaster in I was interested to see in the winter issue that there is to be a lifeboat December 1981 was a terrible permanently stationed at Gravesend. I was born there in 1919. My tragedy for Mousehoie. As a close father travelled every day by the Gravesend Tilbury ferry to his work at friend of all the crew, Del was Customs and Excise at Tilbury Docks, being away all day and arriving particularly affected but, in spite of home late in the evening. his personal grief, he was a tower In those days there were many thick fogs when the ferry could not of strength to their families. sail. On those days I was told my father had to cross the river in a small Del became treasurer in 1989 boat and it was said that if anyone fell into the Thames off Gravesend - a post in which he was still they would never be seen again - presumably swept away by strong active at his death at the age of currents. My mother was not a great communicator and kept any 70. His funeral at Paul church anxiety she felt to herself. Thus all I knew as a small child was an was full of his friends and atmosphere of silent anxiety in the home on foggy days. colleagues and a helicopter from To this day I believe this anxiety has haunted me, occasioning Culdrose flew overhead in nightmares of silent nothingness for which I could not account. But tribute. We shall not forget him - hopefully now I can resolve this by adding to my nightmares the the Penlee branch will never be pictures of a small orange lifeboat speeding to the rescue. quite the same again. Thank you RNLI - for one more rescue. James Hodge Miss Eleanor Hill President Wadhurst, East Sussex Penlee branch
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In March 1999 the RISILI celebrated 175 years of service to those in peril on the sea. March 2002 marked another historic milestone - 150 years' continuous publication of the Lifeboat, the magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. This is a remarkable achievement - even during the Second World War a quarterly bulletin was produced. RNLI honorary librarian Barry Cox reports on what must surely be one of the oldest of in-house publications.
The idea of a lifeboat magazine was first put forward by Captain John Washington to the Committee of Management on 8 January 1852, when he produced THE LIFE - BOAT, a specimen of what he proposed. At the next meeting, on 5 February, approval was given 'provided its cost to the Institution did not exceed JOUHNAL OP THE NATIONAL SHEPWBECX INSTITUTION. E50 a year'. Captain Washington was given the job of finding publishers. He was certainly a fast worker No. 1.] IST MARCH, 1852. [PRICK I!D. to get the first edition out on 1 March - luckily 1852 was a leap year, so he did at least have an extra day! wncki. In thrw upmta gitei which INTRODUCTION. occurred in the y«n 1821,1824, and 1B20, Although the format of the Lifeboat may have Ir there b* on* wbjrct mm than another then were loat on the «U cuut of that might be (ipecfcd to commud the England, bftwiwn th« Humber and the changed over the years, its purpose has remained atUnUon and «nlut ib* aympalhy of i Te», IBS Teaaeta. In the angle gale of the unaltered - to 'advance the great cause we maritime country like Great Britain, it 31>t Anguat and lit September, 1833, no aurely mint b* the «ftty aiu! weliare of ItM than 81 Bricuh v*at*li wen lotl on the advocate, namely, the improvement of lifeboats, thoae of her Kin " wboM botuttM 1* in Ibe ondi m the North Sea and on the «att coaal their management and all the means for the gnu num." ml \<>i bow imperfectly in- of Lngland. In the diauirau* gale of the formed, how mpmclj indifferent, li the 13lh January, 18*3, 103 i«el> wen preservation of life from shipwreck'. (prat bulk of our population u to the wrecked on the
I www.lifeboats.org.uk Victorian sentimentality. The development of Above: A typically economic photography and reproduction changed emotional Victorian the style of the illustrations, the quality improving woodcut, entitled 'No over the years until they reached the standards we Lifeboat Here' that appeared in an early take for granted today. Colour did not make a issue of" the Lifeboat permanent appearance until well into the 20th century but the Lifeboat would not now be complete Left: Street sweeper without the excellent .shots of all aspects of the buying a flag from the lifeboat service's activities. Duchess of Norfolk Today's readers may well find the early editions on Lifeboat 'Century' somewhat dull, both in look and in content. Issue Day in 1924 No.2 (April 1852) included an article on the 1849 for the first time, a trained journalist filled the post Fishing Statistics on Herring and Cod Fisheries. On Bottom left Lifeboat of editor for the first time. It has remained such the other hand, this well illustrates the change in crew member m black oilskins, sou'wester ever since - a specialist appointment within the demand on the RNLI from the early days, when and Captain Ward's public relations department. most of the lifeboat services were to fishing cork lifejacket Early editions had no illustrations. In issue No.7 vessels, to the present, where it goes out to more (December 1852) a simple woodcut of the cross- leisure craft than working vessels. In 1849 there Below: The crew of section of a lifeboat appeared. Later, reproductions were 14,692 fishing vessels with 59,792 men and the Lytham St Annes of engravings were popular, particularly those full of boys working the boats. In contrast, the 2000 UK lifeboat ON-73, fishing fleet comprised 7,242 vessels and Charles Biggs, who employed 15,121 fishermen. In 2000 there were saved twelve of the 3,244 lifeboat launches to leisure craft and only 848 crew of the Mexico to fishing vessels. in 1886.
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Above: 'A Life-boat Over the years, the Lifeboat has kept supporters became standard issue and was responsible for the Rescue with the Help informed of all the major events in the RNLI's saving of many lives well into the 20th century. of the Life-Saving Net' history. The Lifeboat of July ,1854 records a meeting Sadly, even the best lifejacket cannot save men by Charles Pears RQI, of the Committee on 1 December 1853, where a when the sea is at its most fierce. The Lifeboat of published in 1924 decision vital to the country's lifeboatmen was February 1887 opened in sombre fashion with the made. The magazine records 'After the receipt of a heading 'The Life-boat disasters at Southport and St Below: The remains of further explanation of trial of the life-belts, by Mr Annes'. It continued with the official report of the Tynemouth boathouse and the John Pyemont Forward, Commander of the Revenue Cruizer, Sylvia, Mexico disaster, when 14 of the 16 Southport crew, lifeboat, which were it was resolved that Capt. Ward's cork life-belts be together with all 13 crew of the St Annes lifeboat destroyed by a German supplied to the crews of the life-boats, in connection were lost on a service to the barque Mexico, of bomb on 9 April 1941. with the Shipwreck Institution.' The cork lifebelt Hamburg, which was in distress south-west of Lytham. The Lytham lifeboat then managed to go alongside the Mexico and rescued 12 men. Coxswain Thomas Clarkson received the Silver Medal for this service. This terrible disaster led to unprecedented support from the public. 'Her Majesty The Queen, the Patroness of the Institution, graciously contributed £100 to the special fund,' the Lifeboat reported. 'His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany sent £250 The Daily Telegraph appealed to its readers to give their aid, with the result that the munificent sum of £6,646 was contributed through the medium of that newspaper.' This tragic loss inspired the Chairman of the St Annes branch, Charles Macara, to come up with a plan for the first street collection in aid of the lifeboats. The Lifeboat of November 1891 reports, 'In April last we suggested to ail our Branches and to the Public Press that a "Lifeboat Sunday" should be established and we are glad to know that the proposal has been well taken up in many parts of the United Kingdom, more particularly on the coast.' The editorial went on to urge that 'everybody can do something. Those who can only afford the "widow's
www.lifeboats.org.uk mite" can use their influence with those who can Left: 'The first colour give "of their abundance," while others can by cover, in 1971 means of lectures, entertainments, collecting boxes, Below: The Lifeboat &c., bring "grist to the mill."' as it is today In 1924 the RNLI celebrated its 100th anniversary; an occasion marked by the magazine with its first- ever colour edition. As well as a selection of paintings and illustrations of lifeboats in action, the centenary issue featured contributions from popular cartoonists of the day W Heath Robinson and HM Bateman. Those who had contributed articles included Joseph Conrad, an ardent supporter of the lifeboat service. In a stirring tribute to all lifeboatmen, written shortly before his death in 1924, he recalled his time in the British Merchant Navy: 'I can bear witness to our unshakeable belief in the Life-boat organisation and to our pride in the achievements of our fellow-seamen, who, husbands and fathers, would go out on a black night without hesitation to E-BO dispute our homeless fate with the angry seas.' The editor of the day was George Shee, who made the valid point then, which is still relevant today, that he wished to include in the magazine 'everything that should be of interest to life-boat workers throughout the country, whether their work is in connection with the administration of the service on the coast or the no less important work of raising the funds necessary for its maintenance'. that it would be 'an occasion for everyone connected Although the current magazine is aimed mainly at with the lifeboat service to feel both pride and lifeboat supporters rather than the volunteer crews humility.' Many articles over the coming year paid and fundraisers, the sentiment is no less true today tribute to the RNLI's great history, including a piece than it was then. by the author Jilly Cooper. She recorded her It was 47 years later before colour reappeared in impressions of a visit to Hastings lifeboat station in the Lifeboat but this time it was here to stay. Only her own inimitable way, quickly alluding to what the the cover was in colour and this change came at a coxswain wore in bed and commenting on the time when the RNLI was suffering from a period of 'kinky-looking thigh boots'. Perhaps not many people low public confidence. The Fraserburgh disaster of would consider a lifeboatman's kit to be raunchy but 21 January 1970, with the loss of five lives, had it has come a long way since the days of Captain come less than a year after the Longhope disaster, Ward's cork lifebelts, as have the when eight men were lost. Despite a formal lifeboats themselves. investigation by the Sheriff Principal finding no fault In the years since 1974, the attributable to the lifeboat service, the RNLI's lifeboat has continued to inform its theLifeboat Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfred Woods GBE KCB DSC, readers of every aspect of the announced in the Lifeboat that 'it is the duty of the lifeboat service, including detailed Committee of Management to do everything accounts of rescues, improvements Covering our possible to speed up the existing programme of to the fleet, fundraising and more. coasts modernising the life-boat fleet, by replacing the older The current editor, Jane Smythson, non-self-righting boats by new construction; by continues to advance the improving the sea-keeping qualities of the later non- publication and has received self-righting boats and by giving them a self-righting widespread praise for the redesign capability where possible.' He appealed to the public that has brought the Lifeboat into for their support and commended the magazine's the 21st century. new look. 'We anticipate that the new-style Journal The appearance of hovercraft, will help to tell more people about the RNLI's work,' coordinated lifeguards on our he concluded. beaches and lifeboats on the Fortunately, the lifeboat service's fortunes Thames and inland waterways improved over the following years. In 1974 the ensures that the Lifeboat will be an Institution celebrated its 150th anniversary. Dubbing informative source of information 1974 The Year of the Lifeboat, the magazine noted and debate for many years to come. This was definitely the most difficult and dangerous rescue I have carried out in the four years I have been lifeguarding.' Lifeguard Mark Johnston
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Thanks on Vellum Lifeguard Mirk John ion lor his 'courage, First ever bravery award determination in heavy surf conditions ar>d professional efficiency '
Chiel Executive's LeTter of Thanks for an RNLI lifeguard Lifeguard Alan Wheeler for tus 'courage, determination in heavy surf conditions and for the assistance ha ottered to ensure a Mark Johnson made RNLI successful outcome to the rescue.' history in December when he was awarded the Thanks on Vellum after saving the life of a man who was being washed out to sea. Mark is the first RNLI beach lifeguard to receive such an honour. Fellow lifeguard Alan Wheeler received a Letter of Thanks from the RNLI's Chief Executive. Mark and Alan were patrolling Mawgan Porth beach in Newquay on the afternoon of Wednesday, 8 August 2001 when they spotted three people in difficulties. The bathers The shelving, sandy beaches at Mawgan Porth are a popular tourist attraction. were caught in a rip current and were drifting out to sea, north of the to do as he pushed and towed them safely back to beach's bathing zone. the beach. This was an unusually tricky and Despite the clear, sunny weather the sea physically demanding task because of the surf was dangerous with high surf. Mark and Alan conditions and the state of children - one of whom became concerned for the safety of the was particularly frightened. bathers, who were now 150m from the shore, Meanwhile, Mark had paddled over to a casualty and immediately paddled out on rescue who was desperately trying to swim back to shore. boards to warn them to return. The man, who was not wearing a wetsuit and did 'My first thoughts were to get them in as not have a surfboard, collapsed with exhaustion on fast as I could' said Mark. 'I didn't have time Mark's rescue board. By now larger seas were to think really.' breaking but smaller waves were creating lulls in the The lifeguards reached the bathers, a few surf. When Mark tried to pull the man further on to minutes later and realised that the two the board they were hit by a large wave - washing children, who were on body boards, could the board and the casualty away. not get back to shore without help. Alan After the wave had passed Mark had trouble reassured the children and told them what finding the man until he noticed a dark shape www.lifeboats.org.uk Even in good weather strong rip currents and surf can make the sea at Morgan Forth a dangerous place.
beneath the surface. He dived down to grab the hospital by Cornwall Air Ambulance. casualty and, after a struggle, managed to bring him 'I felt elated, we all did. It was a great team effort' to the surface. Luckily, the man was still breathing. said Mark. 'A few days later the man returned to the 'He was in a very poor state when I reached him' beach with a letter of thanks and a crate of beer for remembered Mark. 'I thought, at one stage, he was the lifeguard team.' going to give up the struggle to stay afloat.' George Rawlinson, divisional inspector of With the rescue board now gone, Mark had to use lifeboats for the south.division, said 'The whole a rescue technique known as free swimming to tow incident was demanding and testing due to the the man in. 1 was confident I could get the casualty heavy surf conditions. Both lifeguards had to call on in' he said. 'My mam concern was whether he would all their professional and physical training. Mark remain conscious until I got him to the beach. When I showed particular strength and determination in was towing him he was semiconscious.' saving the casualty, especially as he had become By this time, Alan had safely delivered to two seperated from his rescue board. Alan offered children back to shore and was paddling back out exemplary assistance to the two children in a through the surf to help Mark and the casualty on challenging and potentially life-threatening situation.' the final part of their journey. When they had got the man back to the beach he was still breathing but suffering from shock. 'We were all very relieved 'I feel honoured to receive the award, but I feel it when the three casualties were safely back on the is not just for me, it's for all the lifeguards over beach' said Mark. The lifeguards assessed the man's condition and the years who have carried out serious rescues gave him first aid before he was evacuated to and gone unrecognised.' Mark Johnston Continuing a long tradition It is worth remembering that the first Gold Medal them immediately filled by the heavy seas. Unable ever presented by the RNLI was for a beach rescue. to persuade the brig's crew to act on any of his The incident took place on 8 March 1824, just four other suggested means of rescue, he re-entered days after the founding of the Institution. the water and was hauled back to the shore by the The Swedish brig Carl Jean, bound from Alicante line, arriving exhausted and unconscious on the to Gefle and laden with salt and casks of wine, was beach. When the ship began to break up, her crew seen to be in difficulties broadside on to the shore at were fortunate enough to reach shore using the Whitepit, near Christchurch, Hampshire. Commander fallen mainmast. Charles Fremantle RN, employed by HM Coastguard Many other beach-based rescues have taken at Lymington, was the first to react to her plight, place throughout the 178-year history of the RNLI when he plunged into the surf with a line around and it is only fitting that beach lifeguards now him. The ship, her mainmast over the side, was in formally take their place in the Institution alongside imminent danger of breaking up as her hull pounded lifeboatmen and women. Mark Johnston has the bottom. become the first beach rescue lifeguard to receive The intrepid commander swam to the wreck and an award from the RNLI but he will certainly not be managed to get her boats cut clear, only to see the last. Joint rescue saves water-skiers
THE LIFEBOATS On Saturday, 8 September 2001, three lifeboats, two helicopters and two Treatddur Bay Atlant* 75 lifeboal B 731 cliff rescue teams were called out to rescue three people from a Dorothy Setitti Funding A generou* gift from speedboat that had capsized in a notoriously dangerous area. The wind Mr Reg Dawe of Hereford was blowing at over 40mph and there was a strong tidal race. Below is D class lifeboat D-441 Irish Divtr Trearddur Bay helmsman Chris Pritchard's account of the service. Funding The Irish Underwater Council
Aiun class lifeboat ON-1 1 23 62-37 Kennrttt Thelwall Funding The generous The lifeboat was launched at 1 pm to a report of a bequeit of Mr Kennelh capsized craft with three or four people in the water Thelwall off the promontory of Penrhyn Mawr, near an THE CREW outcrop of rocks known as the Fangs, almost three Atlantic 7S lifeboal miles from the lifeboat station. Helmsman Chris Pritchard While on route to the Fangs it became obvious Crew Members Terry Pendlebury that conditions were going to be difficult- The tide Dave Hick etts was in full flood and the whole area appeared as a
D class lifeboat wall of white water. A north-westerly wind at force 6 Helms man or 7, with gusts of 40mph, was blowing against the Anthony Sum man Crew Members tide, making sea conditions extremely hazardous. Lee Duncan Avoiding a wall of standing 5m waves, we Aubrey D'ggle proceeded through a narrow inshore gully to enter Arun class lif eboit Coxswain the sea area west of the Fangs and into the tidal Brian Thomson race. We continued for about 400m but due to the Crew Members Iwan Williams atrocious sea conditions we saw nothing. Sean Doody I then began a parallel search across the width of Robin Owen Stuart Cramp the tidal race. Sea conditions were worsening rapidly Geoffrey Shaw with waves now over 6m in a confused sea. As the TREARDDUR BAY LIFEBOAT search continued, we were moving westwards and STATION ever closer to the South Stack. The length of each Established 1967 Previous Medals Bronze leg of the search was becoming longer as the width and up to South Stack - a distance of two miles. I 19711x21 of the tidal race widened the further down tide it got thought that the numerous back-eddies in this area from the Fangs. might have taken the casualties close inshore to the Riflru (L to R) Dave Rictens. Meanwhile, the D class lifeboat Irish Diver was foot of the cliffs. Chris Priicttard and Terry launched to assist. As it approached the search This was now turning into a major incident. The Pendteburv area, I radioed the crew to take extreme care and Sea King helicopter from 122 Squadron, Valley, had Setow Atlantic 75 Dorothy Seiina ana D class Irish Diver not to enter the tidal race but to carry out a close been asked to assist in the search but would not Pictures AJf Pntchard inshore search in the calmer waters from the Fangs be able to arrive for 25-30 minutes, as she was some 100 miles away at a separate incident at Southport. The Coastguard also requested the services of the North Wales Police helicopter, which was about 20 minutes away. At the same time the Holyhead Arun class lifeboat was launched to make the four mile journey to the search area and the cliff rescue teams from Holyhead and Rhoscolyn began searching the coastline from the Fangs to South Stack. We had by now been searching in the tidal race for 45-50 minutes, with each leg being about one mile long due to the widening of the race stream. Our search had taken us down stream as far as South Stack Island and it was here we came across some debris, including bits of water-skiing
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THE LIFEBOAT Me'sev class lifeboat ON-1176 12-19 Four Boyt Funding Land'i End lifeboat appc*l. S«nn*n Cove Irfeboat apoeir, I .inriAii Broadcasting Compiny *pp»al. bcqimts Seven saved or Clement Holland and Patlii Hlddlnton, together with othei gifts and l«g*ci*% ...along with an historic boat THE CREW Chairmnn'i Letter ol Thanki Coxswain John ConnHI tor his 'leadership and boamanaimg skids Joined crew 1979 In the early hours of 8 Emergency Mechanic 198S Coxswain: 1999 August 2001, the Occupation Fithtrmin historic fishing vessel Operalioni Director'* Reaper was on Letter of Think* Crew Member passage from Eimond Coulter Anstruther to
Mechanic Hartlepool in gale Neil Hancock force conditions and Crew Memoers David Ball rough seas. The Kevin Henderton William Gibson 100-year-old herring ChriMopher Nishri drifter was taking water and, although AMBLE LIFEBOAT this was normal for STATION the vessel, her bilge Established 184> Previous Medals Font pumps could not cope Bionie and had failed- leaving her crew of seven in danger. Amble lifeboat crew were alerted and launched the all-weather lifeboat minutes later under the command of Coxswain John Connell. The Mersey class lifeboat Four Boys Photo R«k Tomim«m 'My first thoughts and concerns were the . Conditions in the harbour gave little shelter to the conditions surrounding the callout - it was very lifeboat as she steamed towards the casualties last windy, raining and there was a heavy swell' known position. The sea state deteriorated even remembered Esmond Coulter, lifeboat crew further as the lifeboat continued seaward - causing member. 'The people who needed our help were in a her to be airborne at times - but skillful handling by very dangerous situation. Time was of the essence.' the coxswain helped maintain good speed. www.lifeboats.org.uk The lifeboat then made a second approach and Service the pump's suction and delivery pipes were passed to Reaper 8 August 2001 over by heaving line. The lifeboat deck was constantly awash during these operations and crew 0311 Tyne Tees Coastguard requests launch of had to be attached by lifelines to prevent them being the Amble lifeboat washed overboard. 0321 Amble Mersey class lifeboat Four Boys Once aboard the casualty, Esmond supervised the launches rigging of the suction pipes and started the pump. 0405 Reaper sighted by lifeboat crew There was a lot of debris in the Reaper's bilge which 0430 Lifeboat gets alongside casualty meant that Esmond had to spend much time below 0445 Esmond Coulter and pump are tranferred deck keeping the pipes clear. to the casualty With the water level now dropping in her bilges, 0450 Reaper rolls on to the lifeboat the Reaper made for Amble harbour with the lifeboat 0510 Lifeboat transfers suction pipes in close attendance. The helicopter was no longer 0525 Pump set up and running needed and, before it returned to station, landed a 0540 Reaper and the lifeboat head back spare pump on to the lifeboat's deck in case a back- 0655 The lifeboat and Reaper reach Amble up was required. 0715 Lifeboat refuelled and ready for service 'I knew we were safe the first time I looked up and saw the harbour entrance' said Esmond. 'We were out of immediate danger and closer to safety.' The casualty, escorted by the lifeboat, reached A rescue helicopter from RAF Boulmer had been Amble and was safely, alongside just before 7am. scrambled earlier to take some pumps to the The salvage pump was left aboard until she was casualty but the violent motion and size of the pumped dry. Reaper's masts and rigging prevented it from getting One of Reaper's crew members had a slight head too close. It was very dark and visibility was poor but injury where he had slipped up earlier on the wet when the lifeboat arrived on scene the helicopter deck. He was transferred to the lifeboat and helped by providing overhead lighting. The examined by Neil Hancock who cleaned the cut and casualties were very relieved to see us and were swelling. The man also had a headache and was keen to do what they could to help save the vessel' feeling nauseous so he was handed over to said Esmond. paramedics at the boathouse who examined him, The casualty's violent rolling motion made it dressed the wound and declared him fit and well. impossible for the helicopter to drop a pump aboard The skipper of the Reaper contacted the station safely. 'I knew that the lifeboat was the only later in the day to say how impressed he was by the chance of transferring a pump and saving the coxswain and crew - their actions had undoubtedly vessel.' said John. saved this historic vessel. 'The loss of the vessel The coxswain took control of the lifeboat from would have been tragic as she is a popular visitor to the upper steering position and crew members got marine events up and down the coast' he said. on deck to prepare a salvage pump. Esmond On finding out that he had received an award volunteered to board the Reaper with the pump and John said: 'I am pleased and honoured, not just for readied himself as the lifeboat made a run in to myself, but for the whole station. I felt proud of the assess the situation. way the crew performed their duties in such Initially, the rolling of the drifter pushed the difficult conditions.' lifeboat away but, using all his skill and boathandling experience, John managed to come alongside on the first attempt. The pump was transferred and Esmond safely timed his jump to the Reaper. 'The moments of particular concern were when I was manoeuvring alongside the vessel and holding the lifeboat against the side to 'I was relieved that nobody transfer Esmond and the pump.' remembers John. had been seriously injured Esmond, too, remembers that moment well: 'I had and that we had been able concerns for my own safety and was thinking of my family at home' he said. to save the historic Reaper. I As the lifeboat was preparing to move back, a felt that everything went like large swell caused the Reaper to roll on to the clockwork and all the hours lifeboat's deck, causing some damage to her rails - of training had paid off.' thanks to the coxswain's quick actions in pulling the lifeboat astern, nobody was injured. Crew Member Esmond Coulter Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in full view of the harbour. Stephen Forster, station honorary press officer and second tractor driver, takes up the tale.
The dedication ceremony tow. He had left Grimsby at 2am and was now for our new D class was suffering as a result of the poor conditions. He was V coming to a conclusion therefore very grateful for the offer of having a crew i. when the attention of member put aboard. Malcolm decided to make his some of the crew approach from windward, as Araxian was being wandered to a yacht carried off downwind and he was concerned that, if motoring north across he came at her from the other side, she would roll the bay. As the yacht's heavily against the lifeboat. hull disappeared behind Having made a dummy run. Malcolm made his Filey Brigg, the rock approach, laying the bows of the lifeboat amidships ledge promontory that of Araxian, enabling Barry Robson and Richard defines the north arm of Robinson to assist Neil Cammish to scramble onto THE LIFEBOAT Filey Bay, the phone rang. It was Number Arabian's foredeck. This is a complicated manoeuvre Mersey class lifeboat ON' 1170 Coastguard: we had a shout. Gilbert Grey oc, our in a Mersey, with its aft steering position, as the 12-13 Ktrp Fit Allocation president, was most impressed. He thought this was coxswain has to rely on his 'eyes' in the bows: in Funding Th« K«*p Fli Association appall ind laid on as part of the ceremony! this case, Barry Robson. Filtv lifeboat «pp*«i- Mr Geoffrey Rowe on his Bavaria 34 yacht Neil was now safely aboard the Araxian. There ingelher with olhti gitti and legatiei Araxian was on solo passage from Grimsby to was a piece of rope tied to the yacht's rails and I Whitby when his engine failed north of Filey Brigg. fastened myself onto that, as the conditions were THE CREW Chalimin'i Letter ol He had started to drift south, which would have treacherous', he recalled. He then secured the tow Thanki taken him onto the Brigg. HMS Shetlandwas in the rope to the anchor winch and the tow commenced. Coxswain Malcolm Johnson lot his vicinity and RAF Leconfield's search and rescue Sea 'After about 10 minutes the tow went tight, 'seamanship, Doa I ha nd I ing King helicopter was overhead at the time. Both pulling the nose of the boat down', he said. 'The ant)command skills' Joined craw 1967 remained on scene until the arrival of our all-weather next thing I knew, we were hit by a wave and I was Second Coxswain 1988 lifeboat Keep Fit Association. in the sea! I had hold of the rope tied to the rails and Coxswain 1998 Occupation Join«r We launched on service right at the top of the Mr Rowe had enough presence of mind to secure Pievious Awards Thinks on Vellum 1984 tide, which in Filey is quite interesting. Our carriage- the rope tight. Thankfully, I managed to pull myself launched Mersey is normally towed to the water's back on board. It happened so fast I didn't have time Chief Executive's Letlet ol Thanks edge, turned around square to the surf and launched to be scared and I was fully kitted out, but I was Craw Memoer Neil to sea. When there is no beach, this manoeuvre has quite cold on the way back.' Cammiih to be carried out within the confines of the slipway With Neil safely back on board, the tow resumed Crew Members at the bottom of Coble Landing. The 'push in' then to Scarborough harbour. Here a damp Neil was John W*rd Richard Rohmson has to be made on a curve to round the sea wall that Barry Robion P«t«r MacAulsy forms a breakwater to Coble Landing. Ritlijidson Johnson The run to the casualty was less than 1.5 miles as Malcolm Johnson, our coxswain, was able to take FILEY LIFEBOAT STATION the boat inshore of the E cardinal buoy, which marks Established IBM the submerged section of the Brig. In the tideway Previous Medals Silver 18S9 north of the Brig, the north-westerly gale over the Bionie 1919(1,21 Thanks on Vellum 1983, tide was lifting up swells to 6m. 'Scruffy', as 1984 Malcolm described it, 'rough, but I've been in rougher'. On the way to the casualty, the boat 'took off twice. When we reached Mr Rowe, it was quite clear that he was in a poor state to assist with taking a www.lifeboats.org.uk 'Pheasant' design window blind & - send for full range brochure. Countryman John make blinds to let you admire the wildlife of the countryside at your windows. BE CREATIVE - we can mix & match any combination you prefer. Range include-, wildlife
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Malcolm carefully approaches Ara> •it is helped over the guardrails and onto the casualty returned to Filey by road. Keep Fit Association returned to Filey, was recovered and rehoused, its crew content in the knowledge of a job well done. This was a dangerous job in extreme conditions but the boat, crew and all the gear STARTING performed well. With the exception of Neil's 'mishap', AT JUST everything went as planned. me V.-\T It was not until a few days later that most of the station Wireless or cabled came to realise what a magnificent piece of seamanship it had The new Vantage Pro weather stations offer foreeaMing, on-screen been from Malcolm, when a video taken by the search and graphing for every sensor. ;md multiple alarm sellings. Monitor UV. rescue helicopter arrived. It clearly showed the lifeboat surging temperature, wind. ruin, barometric pressure, humidity, and more. alongside, kissing the bows amidships of Araxian. depositing Quick-view icons show the forecast ai a glunce. while ;i moving ticker Neil and clearing astern on the top of one huge swell. tape display gives more details. Mostly clear with little temperature Everyone at Filey station was delighted to learn that change? Increasing clouds and cooler'.' Whatever the forecast. Vantage Malcolm and Neil were to receive letters of thanks from the Chairman and Chief Executive, respectively, for their parts in Pro will let you know. Order now. or ask for >oui free catalogue. this service. They were presented with them at a crew dinner ICS Electronics Ltd, on 2 March 2002. This dinner was arranged to mark the Unit V. Rudford Industrial Estate, Ford, Arundel. Sussex BN18 OBD. retirement of honorary secretary George Cammish and deputy Tel: +44 (0) 1903 731101 (4 lines) Fax: 444 (0) 1903 731105 launching authority David Baker, both of whom had given Email: [email protected] Web Site: www.icselectronics.co.uk sterling service to the RNLI at Filey. Volunteer lifeboat crews need your help to save lives at sea. Please remember the RNLI in your Will.
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Registered Charily No. 209603 BJOJ .: Royal National Litetxwi lns:nudon Name Class ON No. Op No. Allocation Name Class ON No. Op No. Allocation AJfi & LG Undge Arun ON- 1086 5?25 Relief Fleet Leonard Kent Mersey ON- 11 77 1?20 Margate Albert Brown Severn ON- 1202 17-03 Harwich Liletime Care Mersey ON-1148 12-11 Relief fleet Alec and Christina Dykes Severn ON-1255 17-28 Torbay Lil Cunningham Mersey ON-11B3 12-24 Rhyl Aleiander Coutanche Tyne ON-1157 47-039 St Helier Lilly and Vincent Anthony Mersey ON-1168 12-010 Pwllheh Andy Pearce Mersey ON-1164 12-006 Llandudno Lincolnshire Poacher Mersey ON-1166 12-008 Skegness Ann and James Ritchie Mersey ON-1171 12-14 Ramsey Mabel Alice Arun ON- 1085 52-24 Penlee Ann Lewis Fraser Arun ON-1143 52-41 Tobermory Mabel Williams -'• ON-1159 52-45 Relief Fleet Anna Livia Trent ON- 1200 14-05 Dun Laoghaire Macquarie Trent ON-1225 14-21 Sunderland Annie Blaker Tyne ON-1153 47-035 Wicklow Margaret Foster Severn ON-1231 17-13 Kirkwall Austin Lidbury Trent ON-1233 14-25 Ballycotton Margaret Frances Love Arun ON-1082 52-23 Barry Dock Babs and Agnes Robertson .• ON-11Z7 47-019 Peterhead Margaret Jean Mersey ON-1178 12-21 Relief Fleet Baidaycard Crusader Trenl ON-1209 14-11 Eyemouth Margaret Russell Fraser Arun ON-1108 52-34 Relief Fleet Bingo Lifeline Mersey ON-1184 12-25 Relief Fleet Marie Winstone Arun ON- 1076 52-19 Unallocated Blue Peter VI 1 Trenl ON-1198 14-03 Fishguard Marine Engineer Mersey ON-1169 12-12 Bridlington Bon Accord Severn ON-1248 17-24 Aberdeen Manners Friend Tyne ON-1142 47-029 Relief Fleet Bryan and Gordon Severn ON- 1235 17-15 Ballyglass Mary Irene Millar Tyne ON-1151 47-033 Portpatrick Charles Brown Arun ON-1093 52-27 Buckie Mary Margaret Mersey ON-1187 12-28 KilmoreQuay Charles Lid bury Severn ON- 1232 17-14 Aith Maurice and Joyce Hardy Trent ON-1222 14-18 Fowey City of Belfast Arun ON- 11 07 52-33 Do nag ha dee Mai Aitken III Tyne ON-1126 47-018 Bembndge City of Dublin -'• ON-1113 52-35 Howth Michael and Jane Vernon Severn ON-1221 17-10 Lerwick City of Edinburgh . ON- 11 09 47-007 Fraserburgh Mickie Salvesen Arun ON-1135 52-39 Relief Fleet City of Glasgow III •'< • ON- 1134 52-38 Troon Moira Barne Mersey ON-1185 12-26 Barmouth City of London Tyne ON- 1074 47-001 Selsey Moonbeam Tyne ON- 1152 47-034 Monttose City of London II Severn ON- 1220 17-09 Dover Mora Edith Macdonald Trent ON- 1227 14-23 Oban City of Plymouth Arun ON-1136 52-40 Plymouth Murray Lor me Arun ON-1144 52-42 Lochmver City of Sheffield . ON-1131 47-023 Poole Myrtle Maud Severn ON- 1244 17-22 Arranmore Corinne White lev Trent ON- 1253 14-32 Relief Fleet Newsbuoy Arun ON-U03 52-31 Relief Fleet David and Elizabeth Acland Severn ON- 1243 17-21 Newhaven Norman Salvesen . ON-1121 47-016 Sennen Cove David Kirkaldy Severn ON-1Z17 17-06 Aran Islands Owen and Anne Aisher Tyne ON-1122 47-01 7 Relief Fleet David Robinson Tyne ON-1145 47-030 The Lizard Peggy and Alex Caird Mersey ON- 11 24 12-001 Relief Fleet Dora Foster McDougall Trent ON- 1228 14-24 Relief Fleet Peter and Marion Fulton Severn ON- 1 179 TI-02 Training Lifeboat Dons 8 leas dale Mersey ON- 11 90 12-31 Clogher Head Phil Mead Tyne ON-1110 47-008 Teesmouth Dons M Mann of Ampthrll Mersey ON-1161 12-003 Wells Pride and Spirit Mersey ON-1186 12-27 Oungeness Douglas Aikman Smith Trent ON-1206 14-08 Invergordon Pride of the Humber Severn ON-1216 17-05 Humber Dr John McSpar r an Trent ON- 1246 14-30 Larne Ralph & Bonella Farrani '• ON-1081 52-22 Relief Fleet Duchess of Kent ON-1077 52-20 Relief Fleet RFA Sir Galahad Tyne ON-1112 47-010 Ten by Duke of Atholl ON-1160 52-46 Relief Fleet Richard Cox Scott Severn ON-1256 17-29 Falmouth Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma Trent ON-1180 14-01 Relief Fleet Richard Evans (Civil Service No.39) Arun ON- 1070 52-16 Relief Fleet Edna Windsor Severn ON- 1230 17-12 Barra Island Robert and Violet Tyne ON-1156 47-013 Moelfre Edward Duke of Windsor Trent ON- 1226 14-22 Relief Fleet Robert Charles Brown Mersey ON- 11 82 12-23 Swanage Eleanor and Bryant Girling Mersey ON-1188 12-29 Newcastle (Co Down! Robert Edgar Arun ON-1073 52-18 Weymouth Elizabeth and Ronald Irent ON-1215 14-17 Dunmore East Robert Hywel Jones Williams Trent ON-1239 14-27 Fen it Elizabeth Ann Arun ON-1058 52-11 Unallocated Roy & Barbara Harding ON-1118 52-36 Castletownbere Elizabeth of G lam is Trent ON-1252 14-31 Broughty Ferry Roy Barker 1 Trent ON- 11 99 14-04 Alderney Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wandererl Severn ON-1249 17-25 Yarmouth HOW) Roy Barker II Trent ON- 1224 14-20 Wick Ernest and Marv Shaw Severn ON- 1241 17-19 Campbeltown Roy Barker III Trent ON-1258 14-33 Howth Esme Anderson Trent ON-1197 14-02 Ramsgate Royal Shipwright Mersey ON-1162 12-004 Relief Fleet Ethel Anne Measures Tyne ON-1096 47-005 The Mumbles Ruby & Arthur Reed II Tyne ON- 1097 47-006 Cromer Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs Mersey ON-1175 12-18 Scarborough Ruby Clery Mersey ON-1181 12-22 Peel Fisherman's Friend Mersey ON-1192 12-33 Relief Fleet Safeway Brede ON-1104 33-11 Calshot Foresters Future Brede ON-1090 33-08 Relief Fleet Sam and Ada Moody Trent ON-1240 14-28 Achill Island Forward Birmingham Trent ON-1210 14-12 Exmouth Sam and Joan Woods . ON-1075 47-002 Relief Fleet Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbndge Mersey ON-1172 12-15 New Quay (Cardiganshirel Samarbeta Trent ON-1208 14-10 Gt. Yarmouth & Gorleston Fraser Flyer Severn ON-1237 17-17 Relief Fleet Sarah Emily Harrop . • ON-1155 47-037 Relief Fleet Freddie Cooper Mersey ON-1193 12-34 Aldeburgh Seal mk Endeavour Mersey ON-1125 12-002 Hastings Frederick Storey Cockburn Trent ON-1205 14-07 Courtmacsherry Harbour Silvia Burrell Mersey ON-1196 12-37 Girvan FSB2 ON-1251 FSB-EX Unallocated Sir John Fisher Tyne ON-1141 47-028 Working ton Garside ON- 11 39 47-026 St Davids Sir Max Aitken •'• ON-1071 52-17 Relief fleet George and Ivy Swan son Trent ON-1211 14-13 Sheerness Sir Max Aitken 11 •' ON-1098 52-28 Longhope George and Mary Webb Trent ON-1212 14-14 Whitby Sir Ronald Pechell BT ON-1207 14-09 0 unbar George Gibson . • ON-1140 47-027 Appledore Sir William Hillary . • ON-1147 47-032 Douglas Ger Tigchelaar Trent ON-1223 14-19 Ark low Snolda •'• ON-1100 TI-01 Training Lifeboat Good Shepherd Tyne ON-1115 47-012 Relief Fleet Soldian ON- 1057 52-10 Unallocated Gough Ritchie 11 Trent ON-1234 14-26 Port St Mary Spirit of Derbyshire Mersey ON-1165 12-007 llfracombe Grace Darling Mersey ON-1173 12-16 Sea houses Spirit of Guernsey Severn ON-1203 17-04 St Peter Port Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit II Severn ON-1219 17-08 Islay Spirit of Lowestoft Tyne ON-1132 47-020 Lowestoft Henry Alston Hewat Severn ON-1250 17-26 Mallaig Spiiit of Northumberland Severn ON- 1242 17-20 Tyne mouth Henry Heys Duckworth Trent ON-1213 14-15 Relief Fleet St Brendan Arun ON- 1092 52-26 Rosslare Harbour Her Majesty the Queen Mersey ON-1189 12-30 Lytham Si Annes St Cybi II (Civil Service No 40] , ON- 1095 47-004 Relief Fleet Hermione Lady Colwyn Tyne ON-1158 47-040 Shoreham Harbour Stanley Watson Barker • • ON-1214 14-16 Portree Hetty Rampton ON- 11 20 47-015 Poflhdinllaen The Baltic Exchange II . ON- 11 30 47-022 Saicombe Hibemia ON-1150 52-44 Relief Fleet The Davma & Charles Matthews Hunter •' ON- 1078 52-21 Relief Fleet Hilda Jarrett . • QN-1137 47-024 Baltimore The Famous Grouse Tyne ON-1133 47-021 Relief Fleet Hyman Wmstone Arun ON-1067 52-15 Relief Fleet The Four Boys Mersey ON- 11 76 12-19 Amble Inchcape Mersey ON-1194 12-35 Arbraatn The Joseph Rothwel! Sykes and Hilda M Arun ON- 1099 52-29 Relief Fleet Inner Wheel Brede ON-1089 33-07 Relief Fleet The Lady flank Tyne ON-1114 47-011 Angle Inner Wheel 11 Trent ON- 1245 14-29 Relief Fleet The Princess Royal (Civil Service No.41 ) Mersey ON-1I67 12-009 St Ives James Bibby . • ON-1117 47-014 Barrow The Queen Mother Arun ON-1149 52-43 Thurso James Burrough Tyne ON-1094 47-003 Pad stow The Royal Thames Mersey ON-1195 12-36 Eastbourne John and Margaret Doig Severn ON-1218 17-07 Valentia The Whiteheads Severn ON- 1229 17-11 St Mary's Joy & John Wade Arun ON-1053 52-08 Unallocated The Will Severn ON-1201 17-02 Relief Fleet Joy and Charles Beeby Mersey ON-1191 12-32 Berwick-Upon-Tweed Tom Sanderson Severn ON- 1238 17-18 Stornoway Katie Hannan Severn ON- 1247 17-23 Portrush Violet Dorothy and Kathleen Severn ON -1236 17-16 Stromness Keep Fa Association Mersey ON-1170 12-13 Filey Voluntary Worker Tyne ON- 11 46 47-031 Relief Fleet Keith Anderson Arun ON- 11 06 52-32 Hartlepool Volunteer Spirit Severn ON-1254 17-27 Relief Fleet Kenneth Th el wall Arun ON-1123 52-37 Holyhead William Gordon Burr Severn ON- 1257 17-30 Relief Fleet Kenneth Thelwall II Tyne ON-1154 47-036 Walton & Frmton William Luckin Tyne ON-1111 47-009 Lough Swilly Kingdom of Fife Mersey ON- 11 74 12-17 Anstruther William Street . • ON-1156 47-038 Fleetwood LadyofHilbre Mersey ON-11G3 52-005 Hoylake Windsor Runner ICivil Service No 42) Trent ON-1204 14-06 Blyth Name No. Allocation Name No. Allocation Name No. Allocation Alex & Maimie Preston B-743 Tighnabruaich Sandwell Lifeline B-758 Aberdovey Ken and Mary D-572 Ponrush Alexander Cattanach B-740 Kyle of Lochalsh Spirit of Clovelly B-759 Clovelly Kensington Rescuer D-362 Cowes ILC Alice and Charles 8-760 HelvickHead Spirit of Cumbria 8-714 Silloth Kmgsand D-532 Moelfre Amy Constance B-734 Relief Fleet Spirit of Penarth B-725 Penarth Kip & Kath D-472 Burry Pon Andrew Mason B-581 Helensburgh Spix's Macaw B-525 Relief f leel Landlubber 0-470 Sunderland BBC Radio Cleveland B-766 Hartlepool Susan Peacock B-700 Cowes ILC Lawnflite 0-492 Relief Fleet Beatrice Dorothy B-722 Cowes ILC Tanm Grey B-752 Cowes ILC Leicester Fox D-460 Relief Fleet Benjamin Dowmg Fairbridge 8-751 Clifden The Boys Brigade B-770 Arran (Lamlash) Leicester Fox II D-573 Skegness Bessie 8-708 Minehead The Eric Rowse B-772 St Catherine Leonard S ted man D-496 HayTing Island Betty Battle 8-712 Hayling Island The Moray Dolphin B-771 North Kessock Leslie D D-420 Cowes ILC Bickerstaffe 8-748 Blackpool The Rotary Club of Glasgow B-578 Macduff Lord Daresburv D-497 Newquay (Cornwall) •• B-549 Relief Fleet Thelma Glossop B-737 Brighton Lord Feoffees III D-557 Bridlmgton Blue Peter 1 B-564 Cowes ILC Toshiba Wave Warrior B-736 Cowes ILC Lord Kitchener 0-514 Walmer Blue Peter 1 B-779 Cowes ILC Valerie Hull B-593 Kilkeel Lord Raglan D-421 ReliefFleet Blue Peter II 8-563 Relief Fleet Vera Skilton 8-705 Cowes ILC Lords Feoffees II D-426 Relief Fleet Blue Peter II 8-768 Beaumaris VicandBilleWhiffen B-776 Southend-on-Sea Mabel D-488 Relief fleet Blue Peler V 8-706 Portaferry Walters Lifeboat B-723 Cowes ILC Margaret D-511 Tramore BobTurnbull B-765 Ramsgate Wolverson X-Ray B-590 Relief Fleet Margaret & Fiona Wood D-459 North Kessock Borough of Sol (hull B-582 Abersoch Youth of Ulster 8-584 Bangor ICo.Downl Margaret II 0-536 Aberdeen Brae mar 8-774 Relief Fleet Marguerite Joan Harris 0-530 Howth Brandy Hole B-733 Bumham-on-Crouch Ab-One 0-542 Craster Marjorie 0-433 Relief Fleet British Diver II B-571 Harwich A Ida rq rove D-478 Newcastle ICo. Down) Marjone Helen 0-510 Flint Burton Brewer 8-568 Relief fleet Alec Dykes D-422 ReliefFleet Martin John and Ann D-529 Seahouses Cdr & Mrs Rodney Wells 8-727 Rye Harbour Alice D-375 ReliefFleet Maureen Samuels D-45B Relief fleet City of Bradford V 8-753 Relief fleet Anthony D-450 Relief fleet May D-479 Bortfi Cloth worker B-5B6 Relief fleet Arthur S Georgina Stanley Taylor D-438 Relief fleet Modeller II D-443 Relief fleet Colin James Daniel 8-763 Atlantic College Arthur Bate D-482 Cornvy Nellie Grace Hughes 0-463 The Mumbles Coventry & Warwickshire B-769 Weston-super-Mare Arthur Bygraves D-505 Fishguard No Name 0-333 Cowes ILC CSMA-Fnzzell B-730 Portsmouth Arthur Harris 0-528 fethard No Name D-365 Cowes ILC CSMA 75th Anniversary B-745 Newbiggin AXA Life Inshorer D-445 Relief Fleet No Name D-411 Relief Fleet Daisy A nken B-717 Lough Swilly Bacchus D-410 ReliefFleet No Name D-416 Cowes ILC Dignity 8-761 West Mersea Blue Peter III D-452 North Berwick No Name D-418 Relief Fleet DJS Haverhill 8-749 Hunstanton Blue Peter IV D-453 St Agnes No Name 0-500 Relief Fleet Doc has B-738 Galway Blue Peter VI D-454 Cleethorpes No Name 0-551 Alderney Donald and Ethel Macrae B-735 Queensferry Bob Savage D-520 Aldeburgh Norah Cadman D-566 Blackpool Dorothy Mary B-728 Red Bay BP Service D-412 Training Lifeboat OEM Stone II D-521 Whitby Dorothy Selina B-731 Trearddur Bay Brenda Reed 0-440 Relief Fleet Olive Herbert D-526 Fowey Douglas Pa ley B-742 Appledore Brian & Margaret Wiggins D-541 Withernsea Ordnance Survey Bosun D-432 Relief fleet Duckhams 2001 B-773 Relief Fleel C John Morris DFM D-483 Relief Fleet Palmer Bayer D-465 Relief fleet Edmund and Joan White B-591 Cullercoats Captain Colin D-389 Cowes ILC Patrick Rex Uoren D-506 Mablethorpe Elizabeth Ann 8-732 Relief fleet Cecile Rampton D-392 Cowes ILC Peter Bond D-564 Morecambe Ellis Sinclair 8-576 Staithes & Runswick Cecile Rampton II D-540 Hastings Peter Cornish 0-533 Selsey Elsmore 8-781 SligoBay Cetrek * D-491 Relief Fleet Peterborough Beer festival 1 D-523 Redcar Enid Mary 8-704 Aberystwyth Chloe 0-436 Relief Fleet Phyl Clare 2 D-475 Swanage Ernest Armstrong B-592 Cowes ILC City of Chester 0-424 Relief Fleet Phyllis Mary D-439 Relief fleet Eve Pank B-756 Relief Fleet City of Chester II D-522 Pwllheli Phyllis Mary II D-466 Relief Fleet Falmouth Round Table B-595 falmouth City of Derby D-408 RNLI Poole Depot Pilgrim D-524 Barmouth Foresters B-531 Relief Fleet Coachmakers of London D-471 Arbroath Pride of Nuneaton and Bedworrh D-477 ReliefFleet Frank and Dorothy 8-588 Teignmouth Colin Martin D-468 Happisburgh Pride of West Kmgsdown 0-415 Cowes ILC frank and Mary Atkinson 8-566 Lvmmgton Corydd D-476 New Quay RJM D-429 Relief Fleel Frederick Robertson 6-720 Kmghorn Criddy and Tom D-503 Bembndge Rosemary Palmer D-569 Amble Friendly Fores lei II B-710 Poole Cursitor Street 0-561 fenit Rotary District 11 20 D-563 Filey Giles B-726 Porthcawl David Whitehead 0-553 Kippford Rotherham Grammar School D-430 Relief fleet Gordon England B-701 Relief Fleet Deborah Brown D-555 llfracombe Saddleworth D-556 fleetwood Gordon Mote B-716 Cowes ILC Dolly Holloway D-489 Rock Saint David Dewi Sant D-543 St Davids Helene B-711 Bundoran Douglas Hurndall D-417 Cowes ILC Sarah Helena 0-419 Relief fleet Herbert and Edith B-594 Cowes ILC Edgar Law D-442 Relief Fleel Sea Ranger 0-448 Relief Fleet HimleyHall 6-570 Relief fleet Eleanor & Catherine D-486 Relief Fleet Seahorse I 0-513 Sheerness Institute of London Underwriters 6-579 Relief Fleet Elsie Frances 1 D-457 Relief Fleet Seahorse II D-559 Clacton-on-Sea Jack & Joyce Burcombe 8-762 Relief Fleet Elsie f ranees 11 0495 Sude Seahorse III D-568 Crorner James Burgess B-589 Walmer Ernest and Rose Chapman 0-519 Burnham-on-Crouch Severn Rescuer D-534 Penarth Jason Logg B-703 Flamborough Ethel Royal D-527 Southend-on-Sea Sharpe's Classic All Seasons D-444 Relief Fleet Joan Mary B-778 Mablethorpe f airlands Lady D-414 Relief Fleet Society of Societies D-547 Cardigan John Bat stone B 575 Relief Fleet faith D-537 Weston-super-Mare Spirit of Bedworth and Nuneaton 0-507 Holyhead Joseph B Press B-574 Great Yarmouth & Forest Row Choir D-501 Shoreham Harbour Spirit of Kintyre D-455 Relief Fleet Gorleston Foresters London Pride D-487 Southend-on-Sea Spirit of RAOC D-461 Looe Ken Derham B-5B3 Mudeford Frances 0-462 Port St Mary Spirit of Tamworth D-567 Barrow Leicester Challenge 8-580 Relief Fleet fred Croker 0-498 Relief Fleet Spirit of the ACC D-490 Sennen Cove Leicester Challenge II B-777 Redcar GCH fox D-474 Relief Fleet Spirit of the EXE D-516 Exmouth Leslie Tranmer B-750 Southwold George and Christine D-549 Mmehead Spirit of the PCS RE II 0-546 Port Isaac London s Anniversary 175 8-755 Relief Fleet Georgina Stanley Taylor D-562 Tenby Spirit of the RCT 0-515 Stives Lucy Beryl B-709 Relief Fleet Global Marine D-552 Relief Fleet Spirit of the RPC 0-504 Torbay Manchester Unity of Oddfellows B-702 Sheringham Gwenllian the Rotary Club of Port D-550 Port Talbot St Vincent Amazon D-428 Relief Fleet Mercurius B-707 Criccieth Hartlepool Dynamo D-539 Broughty Ferry Stafford with Rugeley D-485 flhyl Millennium Forester 8-775 Relief Fleet Heyland 11 D-554 Portsmouth Star of the Sea D-548 Courtown Miss Miriam & Miss Nellie Garbutt 8-757 Relief Fleet Holme Team 0-446 Relief Fleet Storrs D-427 Relief Fleet No Name B-526 Relief Fleet Holme Team 3 D-481 Montrose Strickson D-425 ReliefFleet No Name B-767 Relief Fleet Holme Team IV D-525 Clifden Sunrise D-494 Berwick- upon -Tweed OEM Stone 1 B-713 ReliefFleet Humphry & Nora Tollemache II D-449 Relief fleet Sybil 0-484 Little & Broad Haven Oxford Town & Gown 8-764 Whitstable Inbhear Deas D-518 Wicklow Table 32 D-435 Cowes ILC Patricia Jennings B-7BO Cowes ILC In is- E ogham D-502 Lough Swilly The Craft Club D-480 Relief fleet Pearl of Dorset B-741 Cowes ILC Irish Diver D-441 ReliefFleet The Cramer Smuggler D-535 Tynemouth Peggy Keith Learmond 6-739 Cowes ILC Isabella Mary 0-493 Angle The 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Surname Address BROOKS db BENTLEY Telephone No. 1 • HMK*» JiatjiBtaiitWY MvOmnwEfeiiKiMM*) *ttr*aKi The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26 October 1859. The Royal Charter was a record-breaking By the morning of 25 October, the Somewhere between 9 and 10pm, the passenger ship: the first steam-and-sail Royal Charter had reached the Irish Sea captain lost control of his ship. The engine driven liner able to promise passage and was forging northwards with a light could no longer provide headway against between Liverpool and Melbourne, south-east wind and just a ripple on the the storms (sails were of no use in the Australia, in under 60 days. She was a water. There was no indication to warn head wind) and when he attempted to 320ft, 2,719 ton iron-built ship with three the captain that a hurricane, the worst in steer northwards away from the rocky tall clipper masts, a single funnel and an living memory, was wreaking havoc in the shore on his starboard side, the ship auxiliary 200hp engine. Her maiden south and moving inexorably north. By would not respond to the helm. Instead voyage from Liverpool in 1856 coincided 6.30pm on the evening on 25 October, the she was being driven rapidly towards the with the Australian gold rush and when Royal Charter was rounding the Skerries, shore by the wind, which had now moved she left Melbourne on 26 August 1859, a group of islands at the north-west tip of round to the north-east and which had under the captaincy of Thomas Taylor and Anglesey. The wind had now reached a murderous hurricane force. with a crew of more than 100, she was strengthened considerably and was In a final attempt to regain control the crowded with close to 400 passengers blowing from the east. On she steamed captain ordered certain sails to be set and returning home to England, many of almost directly into the wind along the maximum possible steam from the chief whom had amassed a fortune in the gold coast of Anglesey, pitching and tossing engineer to see if he could swing the mines. There was over £300,000 worth of more and more violently as the seas and ship's head round into the wind. If this gold in the hold. wind increased. were possible he could then set a course www.lifeboats.org.uk 143 years ago which would take him out into the Irish from Moeifre were on the cliffs now, Sea and clear of the land. desperately waiting to see how the Three times the ship began to come people on board coutd save themselves as round and three times the gales forced there was precious little help they could At 130am on Oct her back. Unbelievably, the wind was give from the shore. If only a line could be still strengthening. To let go an anchor passed ashore from the ship, a bosun's the strain on the po was the last chance. One hundred chair could be rigged and people could be fathoms of chain were paid out on her hauled to safety one by one. anchor cable was too port anchor but, even with the engine On board the Royal Charter a Maltese turning to reduce the strain, the drift seaman, whose original name Joie could not be entirely checked. Then the Rodriguez had been anglicised to Joseph great and it parted. An starboard anchor was released and fresh Rodgers, volunteered to swim ashore hope was felt on board the ship. The with a line tied round his waist. Every hour later the stark captain believed, or at least told his crew-member knew that such an act was passengers he believed, that he had his the only hope but Rodgers was the man chain also succum ship 'fast by the nose'. This did not prepared to carry it out. His strength and prevent him from sending out distress fearlessness had already been tested to rockets which, even if they had been the limit throughout the night. During the seen, would not have summoned help in captain's desperate earlier efforts to those conditions. No lifeboat could have manoeuvre out of danger Rodgers had made it through the surf and the pilot been up and down the mast several times boats already at sea were fighting for setting sails. their own survival. Refusing even a life-jacket, Rodgers At 1.30am on October 26, the strain on lowered himself by a line over the side of and child aboard the ship the port anchor cable was too great and it the ship and, waiting for the right parted. An hour later the starboard chain moment, let the sea take him. His felt the shock of the sea- also succumbed and the Royal Charter shipmates were sure he was lost, almost was doomed. Before long every man, from the moment he let himself go. woman and child aboard the ship felt the However Rodgers seemed to know what bed against the iron hull shock of the sea-bed against the iron hull to do. He did not attempt to swim for the beneath them. shore, merely to stay afloat. He allowed beneath them. Still the captain tried to quell the the huge waves to lift him up and carry growing panic. They were on sand, not him forwards and then back again towards rocks, the tide was receding and by the ship. This way he did not need to fight daybreak everyone would be able to walk his way through a mass of splintered ashore. He was right about the sand but timber and tangled rigging which heaved wrong about the rest. The tide was in the water all around him. flooding and remorselessly through the Eventually the sea deposited him on Joseph Rodgers night the ship was lifted by the tide and an abrasive shelf of rock. He fought to bumped across the sandy bed by the keep his hold upon it as the receding force of the storm towards the lethal wave dragged him angrily back rocky headland just to the north-west of towards the sea. He won the battle with the village of Moelfre. the wave but the next one was now The three huge masts of the Royal approaching and was bound to swamp Charter had been felled by her crew to him and dash him against the cliff. lessen wind resistance and the vessel's Three Moelfre men had seen him and drift but when dawn broke everyone came scrambling forward to help. By aboard was staggered to see that they linking hands in a chain the leading were within 25m of the jagged rocky man was able to grab Rodgers ledges of the land. So near and yet so and although the next wave far; a tumultuous sea with waves arrived and covered them to the breaking 20m high against the cliffs waist, they retained a hold and separated the shipwrecked from the Rodgers was safe. shore. Meanwhile, to seaward Within a short while a ten- mountainous rollers crashed over the inch hawser had been vessel as she lay broadside on to them. passed ashore and made While the hull of the ship remained fast to a rock. An escape intact there was still a faint hope. Villagers route existed. -~ chair, several riggers rushed forward and were hauled ashore on the hawser. Almost immediately afterwards a huge wave engulfed the forecastle and the officer and all the women and children were washed to their deaths. This was the beginning of the terrible end. Although a few members of the crew scrambled ashore by the bosun's chair after the first disaster, by now the ship had broken in two. The people in the The brave people of Moelfre risked their The bosun's chair had been rigged from stern section had no means of escape lives as they pulled survivors from the surf. the bow of the ship and the majority of other than to throw themselves into the Picture Tim Thompson the passengers were gathered in the sea as the ship began rapidly to stern. To begin with, before they could be disintegrate. Even without the brought forward, an unfortunate squabble encumbrance of their heavy Victorian delayed the use of the bosun's chair for garments and, in many cases, pockets full some 15 vital minutes. A young lady of gold, pathetically grabbed at the last passenger, the girlfriend of the officer in moment, the chances of survival would charge of the device, refused through fear have been practically non-existent. to be the first to be sent ashore by it. A very few did survive instant drowning Some riggers were as keen as she was or being bludgeoned to death on the reluctant to be the first and the result was rocks, but they, along with those who that nobody went for some time. escaped by the hawser, numbered only While the officer, having given up 41. Well over 400 people died including persuading his girlfriend, turned his every officer, every woman and every attention to organising some 70 women child on board. Text taken from Gold Medal Rescues, and children who were now on the The RNLI recognised Joseph Rodgers' by Edward Wake-Walker forecastle waiting to take to the bosun's bravery by awarding him the Gold Medal. The wreck of the Hindlea The scars left by the wreck of the Royal Gold Medal to match that won by Joseph Charter run deep among local people. The Rodgers 100 years earlier. storm and the appalling loss of life have Fortunately, the wreck of the Hindlea Below: After the crew is taken off, the become a grim legend and on the had a happier outcome than that of the Hindlea is torn apart on the rocks. centenary of the shipwreck in October earlier rescue. The 506 ton coaster had 1959 a service of been caught by a strong south-westerly remembrance was held gale and taken shelter in Dulas Bay. Later at Llanalgo Church that morning, however, the wind veered (where the bodies of to the north and strengthened to 104mph, those recovered from turning the safe haven into a death trap the wreck are buried), and the Hindlea was dragged as it has been every remorselessly towards the rocky shore. year since the tragedy. The Moelfre lifeboat was launched with Little did coxswain just four crew and stood by the Hindlea Dick Evans know, until her captain gave the order to abandon attending the ship. The lifeboat had to negotiate a centenary service with treacherous gap between the Hindlea and his crew, that two days the shore to take off the men. It took 10 later he would be desperate attempts but at last all the men battling in weather as were safely on board the lifeboat. Dick fierce as the Royal Evans received the Gold Medal for this Charter storm and rescue. Mechanic Evan Owens was winning in those awarded the Silver Medal and the rest of Moelfre waters another the crew were awarded the Bronze Medal. www.lifeboats.org.uk A new base for Scotland ThenmvbM* The new combined Scotland divisional base and regional office was officially opened on 7 March 2002 by HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI. The move was planned some two years ago when it was realised that both the existing premises were in need of improvement. It is a welcome change for all the staff to be in purpose-built accommodation, designed for the specific needs of the RNLI, Facilities include office and storage space, mechanical and electrical workshops, technical offices and a drying room. 0 Scottish divisional and regional Mall .. ' Q. On station • 'I ALL-WEATHER ... Falmouth - ' ON-1256(17-29) Richard Cox Scoff on 18 December 2001 - ON-1201 (17-02) withdrawn to relief fleet ' 3 Relief Fleet ON-1257( 17-30) William Gordon Burron 15 February 2002 Appledore boathouse opening INSHORE The official opening and dedication of the Appledore lifeboat house took Southend place on 29 September 2001. Storm Force member Harriet Weatherby B-776 Vic & Bitlie Whtffen on 8 December 2001 Crompton (12) cut the ribbon and officially declared the boathouse open. B-567 withdrawn to relief fleet 0 Her great-aunt, Mrs Mary Palmer, whose legacy contributed to the cost of Thames (Gravesend, Tower Pier and Chiswick) the boathouse, was a vice chairman of the Alsager ladies lifeboat guild, E-OOl, E-002, E-003 and E-004 on 2 January 2002 who were well represented at the ceremony. E-005 and E-006 on 21 February 2002 The new building was handed over by Christopher Weatherby, on behalf Teddington of the donors, to Air Vice Marshall John Tetley. RNLI Deputy Chairman. 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Oct24 services for which returns had not been Peter-head Aug1A.Au921.Sep2.Oci7 received ON-1095I47-OM) Ajg19.Aug27.Sep3 For everyone who helps save lives at sea Deaths Retirements It is with regret that we report the following deaths The following crew have retired from duty Basil Hutchinson William Farquhar Thurso coxswain Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January Gerry Prest Appointments Former Littlehampton branch chairman, in January The following new appointments have been made Kenneth Atha Mark Sawyer Eastbourne coxswain Former Halifax branch chairman and treasurer Robert White: Number superintendent coxswain David Pengelly Colin Millar Troon mechanic Looe deputy launching authority, on 28 February William Munro: Thurso coxswain Captain Elwin Sharpies Weston-super-Mare treasurer, on 2 March Daniel Atkinson: Humber crew member O Padstow lifeboat station celebrates Kippford brings new 175 years of saving lives at sea meaning to boathouse For as long as the crew can remember, Kippford lifeboat station had operated out of a garage with no facilities. Numerous efforts to find a more suitable site had failed. Then divisional inspector John Caldwell spotted a house for sale on the main street. He realised its potential and then had the uphill task of convincing everyone else that he wasn't off his head. Architects Robert Potter & Partners came up with the design and the work began. The finished boathouse blends in perfectly with the surrounding houses and the crew can enjoy modern facilities at last. Before 0 Padstow has the second-oldest established lifeboat station in Cornwall. It was set up on 24 January 1827 mainly as a result of the efforts of Commander Williams, chief officer of coastguards. He collected C30 towards the cost of providing a lifeboat and contacted the National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, the fore-runner to the RNLI, which agreed to make a donation of £10 and place the station on its records. The first lifeboat, built at Padstow by John Tredwen, was Mariners' Friend, a four-oared, single-bank rowing lifeboat There are no records of her service. The station was at Hawker's Cove, within the shelter of Stepper Point. Padstow lifeboats, 15 in all, have saved over 620 lives, although not without great sacrifice. Three lifeboats have been lost in two separate disasters, with the loss of 13 lives. Padstow lifeboatmen have won 23 Silver Medals, two Bronze Medals and two BEM Medals. Over the 175 years, 25 coxswains and hundreds of volunteers have made up the crews. For everyone who helps save lives at sea A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading. Its surface, once sealed, is over 25% harder than the surface of concrete. It's virtually weed and maintenance tree. Fully guaranteed. 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Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is an awesome enemy, however, and has claimed the lives of 435 lifeboatmen since the foundation of the RNLI in 1824. The loss of just one man is, of course, a tragedy, but in 1901 a lifeboat disaster at Caister claimed nine of the twelve crew. Here follows the account of the disaster from the Lifeboat magazine of the day. THE LIFE-BOAT 1st February, 1902 The Caister Life-boat disaster The King and the veteran Life-boatman The terrible disaster which overtook one Life-boat Be&uchamp was launched, but towards the sands in the direction of the of the Life-boats belonging to the the heavy seas washed her off the skids distress signals, which were dead to Institution, stationed at Caister on the and she was cast ashore, iuvt>,sihiting her windward. On nearing the sands the coast of Norfolk, in November will be being hauled up on the beach ready for coxswain wore his boat, as the mizen was fresh in the minds of our readers. The another launch. not yet properly set, stood ashore and expressions of sympathy received from all It was intensely dark and very cold, tacked just outside the surf. After making classes, not only in the British Isles and on and it was not until nearly 2 o'clock in the another board, he again tacked and the Continent, but even from the United morning that the efforts to float the boat, proceeded towards the shore, but on States and India, have been most with the aid of the warp and tackle, were tacking again as they got near to the surf gratifying, demonstrating again the successful. Sail was then set, and when the the boat missed stays; he filled again and widespread interest which is taken in the boat was last seen from the shore she renewed the attempt to "stay," but she Institution's Life-boat Service throughout appeared to be all right and most of the failed a second time to come round and the civilised world. launchers went home to change their wet was by that time in the breakers close to Briefly the circumstances of the clothing. But James Haylett, senr., who the beach. accident were as follows:- was for many years assistant coxswain of The coxswain, seeing that it was While the wind was blowing a whole the Life-boat, although seventy-eight impossible to avoid going onshore, gale from N.N.E. with thick rain, and the years old and wet through, after assisting ordered the mizen to be lowered, and put sea was very heavy, on the night of the for several hours to launch the boat, his helm up, but he had only just time to 13th November, flares were seen from a remained without food on watch, having get the boat straight before the sea when vessel on the Barber Sands, and the Cockle two sons, a son-in-law and two grandsons her bow struck the sand about fifty yards Light-ship fired the recognised signals of in the boat. north of the place of launching, and distress to indicate a vessel on those almost simultaneously a very heavy sea sands. This was soon after 11 o'clock. The A fight with the cruel sea caught her on the starboard quarter and crew of the Life-boat were promptly After the boat was floated and sail made she was keel up in an instant. The masts assembled and with all dispatch the No.2 she proceeded out on the port tack were broken short off and the crew Iwww.lifeboats.org.uk . k pinned down beneath the boat, which it men. One body, however, was carried should bo remembered is one of the away and not seen again. Norfolk ,ind Suffolk type, non-self- The names of the nine poor fellows righting, 36 ft. long, 101/: ft. wide, who were lost were Aaron Walter Haylett, weighing five tons without gear and coxswain, and James Haylett, junior, requiring thirty-six men on the gunwale brothers; William Brown, assistant to bring it awash with the crew and gear coxswain, and Charles Brown, brothers; in place and water-ballast tanks full. William Wilson, John Smith, George King, Charles George and Harry Knights, who Help comes from the shore was only nineteen years old, and was This happened shortly before 3 o'clock, at making his first and, as it unhappily The coxswain had which time Frederick Henry Haylett came turned out, his last trip on service in the back to the Life-boat house after changing Life-boat. These men left behind to only just time to get his wet clothes, when he drew the deplore their loss, six widows, thirty-three attention of James Haylett, senior, his dependent children, three other the boat straight grandfather, to cries coming from the dependent relatives and one partly water's edge. Both ran down, and to their dependent. before the sea when surprise and horror discovered the Beaui-hainp bottom up in the surf. There A fitting farewell her bow struck the was a tremendous sea and "sweep" on the The funeral, which was a public one, took beach, but notwithstanding old James place on Sunday, 17th November, when sand and almost Haylett dashed at once into the surf and the Institution was represented by the got hold of his son-in-law, Charles Chairman of the Committee of simultaneously a Knights, who was struggling to get clear Management, Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., of the boat. Frederick Haylett also ran in V.P., and the District Inspector of Life- very heavy sea and was in time to get hold of John boats, Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N. Hubbard. The old man, after assisting There was an immense crowd of caught her on the Knights on shore, went in a second time, spectators, and deputations from the and got hold of his grandson Walter neighbouring Life-boat stations attended. starboard quarter Haylett, and helped him also onto the The verdict of the jury at the inquest beach. Both rescuers incurred great upon the bodies was practically one of and she was keel up danger, but had it not been for their efforts "Accidental Death" no blame being it is almost certain that no one would have attributed to any one. In giving his in an instant. been saved. Subsequently eight dead evidence, James Haylett, senior, made the bodies were recovered at intervals as they following characteristic reply to a were washed from under the boat, the last suggestion that possibly the Life-boatmen being recovered when the boat was had given up their errand as a bad job, righted at 11 .30 a.m. by a large number of "Caister Life-boatmen," he said, "never turn back, and would have kept there till in recognition of his great gallantry and of away without assistance. now if necessary to save men in distress. It the remarkable endurance he displayed at The damaged Life-boat was removed to was against the rules to go back when his advanced age, seventy-eight years, in Yarmouth for repair, but the men distress signals were shown." remaining on the beach for twelve hours, expressed a wish not to have her again on The Board of Trade, at the request of wet through and without food, this being the station, and this desire was at once the Institution, held an exhaustive the veteran's crowning act of half a concurred by the Institution. The inquiry at the Yarmouth Town Hall into century's life-saving in connection with the Institution arranged for a deputation of the circumstances attending the disaster; Institution's Life-boats, resulting in the thnv nt the men to visit other stations it was attended on behalf of the saving of hundreds of lives. The thanks of before finally selecting the type for a new Institution by the Deputy Chief Inspector the Institution inscribed on vellum and 51. boat, but there is little doubt they still of Life-boats, Mr. Charles E. F. were also accorded to FREDERICK H. have a strong predilection for the non- Cunninghamu Graham. HAYLETT. The valuable co-operation righting Norfolk and Suffolk type of boat. The Committee of Management of the afforded by Captain A. F. CLOWES and Dr. The Beaiichamp, the cost of which was Institution, as soon as they learned the CASE, honorary secretaries of the Great presented to the Institution by Sir number of the bereaved dependent Yarmouth and Caister Branches, was also Reginald Proctor Beauchamp, Bart., was relatives, contributed the sum of 2,000/. specially recognised. placed on her station in 1892, and up to towards the fund for their relief which the time of the accident she had been was very promptly started by the Mayor Moving bravely forward launched to the aid of vessels in distress of Yarmouth, which fund ultimately A new Life-boat crew was definitely on 81 occasions, and saved 146 lives; while reached the munificent amount of 12,000/., formed at Caister on the 21st December to the total number of lives which the Life- notwithstanding that it was proposed to continue the noble work left as an boats at Caister have saved during the close it when U),00()/. had been received. It inheritance by the Beaitcliantp victims, past forty-three years is 1381, a "record" is probable that, after meeting the needs of and, strange to say, a few hours as regards the Life-boat stations of the the widows and dependents of the nine afterwards, towards midnight the Life- United Kingdom. men, a substantial sum will be left to form boat bell spoke for the first time since the the nucleus of a permanent fund to meet disaster, the Coastguards having observed A Royal appointment Life-boat disasters involving loss of life in distress flares burning on the Barber On the 6th January, His Majesty the King, the future. The Institution defrayed the Sands. With Jack Haylett as coxswain, the Patron of the Institution, did James cost of the funerals, etc., and liberally No.l Life-boat Covent Garden put to sea. Haylett and the Institution the high compensated the survivors of the disaster. Although hardly recovered, the honour of presenting to him at Beaiichamp survivors, Haylett, Hubbard, Sandringham the rewards granted him by Gold Medal for James Haylett and Knights, with the veteran James the Institution. The Committee also awarded the Gold Haylett, assisted to launch the boat. The His Royal Highness the Prince of Medal of the Institution, a copy of the vote following morning the Life-boat returned Wales, as President of the Royal National inscribed on vellum and framed and the after a fruitless errand, the vessel in Life-boat Institution, was present, as well sum of 25 guineas, to JAMES HAYLETT, senr., distress (a stranded steamer) having got as Dr. W. Case, hon. Secretary to the Caister Station. Major-General Sir Stanley Clarke and Commander Sir Charles Cust, R.N., were in attendance. A Yarmouth Correspondent stated that after the King had presented Haylett with the Life-boat Institution's gold medal, the old man earnestly expressed the hope that his Majesty would live to be a hundred years old and then die and go to heaven, at which the King laughed heartily. "There i> on i1 thing always gives me courage," Haylett said to the King, "and that is when I see poor fellows in the rigging of a wreck. I always put myself among them and say, 'What would I give if a Life-boat •' came to save me?'" Haylett subsequently had a long chat with the Prince and Princess of Wales. He discussed with the Prince the respective merits of the self- righting and Norfolk and Suffolk types of Life-boats, in which subject his Royal Caister Norfolk and Suffolk class lifeboat Beauchamp with her crew. Highness was greatly interested. www.lifeboats.org.uk Caister lifeboat station A lifeboat was placed at Caister by the Norfolk Shipwreck Association in 1846. It was taken over by the RNLI in 1857 and in 1867, a second station was established. Up to 1929, Caister had two stations, each with a pulling and sailing lifeboat. In 1929, as powerful motor lifeboats had then been placed at the neighbouring rescue of six from the barque Anna Caister's No. J lifeboat Covent Garden stations of Cromer and Gorleston, the Precht wrecked on the Cockle Sands on No.1 station was closed. The No.2 station 18 September. Silver Medals were also continued with a pulling and sailing awarded to second coxswain John lifeboat until 1941 when it was replaced Plummer and to Solomon Brown, who by a motor lifeboat, which was launched leaped from the lifeboat onto the by a tractor. The No.2 station was closed wreckage to break the hold of the on 17 October 1969. benumbed men and help them into the Apart from the Gold Medal awarded to lifeboat. In 1963 coxswain JR Plummer James Haylett for his part in the 1901 was awarded the Bronze Medal for the rescue, many other medals have been rescue of seven men from the trawler awarded. In 1875, coxswain Philip George Loch Lorgan on 13 December. Caister 1 and chief boatman S Bishop (coastguard) Despite the closure of the RNLI station, i were awarded Silver Medals for a service the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum vur turn back, and to the Wild Wave. James Haylett jnr, who was awarded to coxswain Roland Read of perished in the disaster, was awarded the the Caister Volunteer Lifeboat in 1987 for would have kept Silver Medal in 1893 for long service. the rescue of 10 of the crew of the rig Coxswain John Haylett and Walter Haylett support vessel Seaforth Conqueror which there till now if received Silver Medals in 1906 for the was aground on North Scroby Sands necessary to save men Never turn back... and never forgotten in distress. It was On Wednesday, 14 November 2001, over against the rules to go 100 people turned out to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this terrible back when distress disaster. Those present included many present-day lifeboatmen from local signals were shown." stations; Tony Wright MP, Member of Parliament for Yarmouth; David Thompson, the Mayor of Yarmouth, and many local James Haylett, senior people who wished to pay their respects. A lone piper ted the procession through the village, following the route of the 1901 procession, to the church where the original funeral service had taken place. Three jets flew overhead in 'missing man' formation. Mourners then placed a wreath on the memorial statue, built in 1903 close to where the nine men are buried. The church service that followed, conducted by the Bishop of Thetford, the Rt Rev David Atkinson, closely followed the form of the original service, 100 years earlier. After the service had concluded, the procession returned to the lifeboat station, where James Haylett's grandaughter, Gladys Brown, unveiled a bust dedicated to the memory of all those who had perished in the service of the lifeboat. The Caister Memorial I Lifeboat,, Magazin, The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of « the major events from that period of the RNLI's history. The Life-boat, the official journal of the Institution, because local people felt, with some justification, was first published in 1852, with the aim of 'laying that they were better judges of the sort of rescue before the public all the information respecting the services their area needed than landlubbers in construction and establishment of Life-Boats, the London. The Northumberland coast had always had number of Shipwrecks, the exertions made to save a particularly proud record of local, privately run Life and Property, and the prizes and medals rescue services, predating Lukin's coble; and the awarded to those who have fact that the Duke of Northumberland now had been most active in that noble sufficient confidence in the Institution to give them service'. It was priced at only control of his lifeboats encouraged other iVsd, 'so as to place it within organisations to do the same. Slowly the Institution reach of every boatman around began to draw under its mantle the dozens of our shores', and for some 150 lifeboats and lifeboat stations that for years had years it has provided the public been operating independently. with a record of acts of courage and fine seamanship In its early years, the Shipwreck Institution had that have seldom been often found that local communities were reluctant equalled and never surpassed. In 1853 the journal to hand over control of their lifeboats. records that 'the Duke of Northumberland has In 1854, this assimilation was given momentum by committed the charge of his a takeover. For some years, the Institution had Life-Boats to the Institution'. In operated in tandem with a sister charity, the its early years, the Shipwreck Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Institution had often found that Society. There had been a duplication of duties and local communities were confusion as to exactly what each organisation did. It reluctant to hand over control was now agreed that the Institution should of their lifeboats. This was concentrate on bringing people safely ashore and that www.lifeboats.org.uk the Benevolent Society should concentrate on caring for them after they had been landed. As part of the deal, the Benevolent Society agreed to hand over its nine lifeboats and boathouses, and the Institution agreed to drop the word 'Shipwreck' from its title, becoming known then on simply as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Later that year, the Institution felt obliged to take what many people thought was a step 1. Appledore's Self in the wrong direction. It accepted an annual subsidy of the Norfolk Association. To quote the journal: Righting lifeboat Hope, from the government - £2,000 from the Mercantile This was a 'red-letter year', because the Norfolk which was involved in Marine Fund, to be administered by the Board of Association had the management of all the boats on three Silver Medal- Trade. This money was needed to give stability to the the Norfolk coast and it is well known that more winning rescues, Institution's programme of increasing and efficiently lifeboat work is done there than in any other part of Coxswain Joseph Cox maintaining its fleet. The government, needless to the coast of Great Britain and the experience of the is shown holding the say, expected a quid pro quo and was soon trying to men who worked these boats (would be] invaluable. tiller, who was himself exert an ever increasing degree of control. In The boats handed over were at Cromer, Mundesley, a holder of three Silver particular, it insisted that all local RNLI committees Bacton, Palling, Winterton, Caister and Yarmouth. Medals. should include at least one representative from the In 1860, barometers were introduced in selected 2 Shields North lifeboat stations. This came about largely through the Country class lifeboat efforts of Admiral Fitzroy (formerly Darwin's was typical of the commanding officer on the Beagle), who was one of lifeboats used around the first people to appreciate that instruments such the time the Lifeboat as the barometer could help accurate weather journal was first forecasting and that accurate weather forecasting published. could reduce the risk of shipwreck. Fitzroy wrote a number of technical papers on this subject; and in 3. Exmouth 's 32ft Self 1859 his point was tragically proven when the Royal Righting class lifeboat Charter was wrecked off Anglesey with the loss of Victoria, built in 1858. some 450 lives, largely because her captain had no 4. Sheringham lifeboat warning of the hurricane that for the previous 24 station's first lifeboat, hours had been devastating southern England (see Augusta, faking the page 26 for an account of the Royal Charter crew off a Fiussialn disaster). It was hoped that the more general use of barque. Board of Trade. This frequently led to friction. So as barometers and the warning of storms by the soon as the Institution felt it could do without the Meteorological Office would make people realise 5. Aberdeen's Bon subsidy, which was in 1869, it thankfully terminated it that getting the weather right could be a matter of Accord No,1 North and reverted to its original charitable status, which it life or death. Country class lifeboat shares its name with has maintained ever since. This article is an extract from Riders of the Storm, the the station's current The year 1856 saw the building of 10 new story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, by Ian Severn class lifeboat. lifeboats, including a veritable giant of a boat for the Cameron, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson priced £20. east coast. Big, heavy rescue boats had always been Readers of the Lifeboat can purchase Riders of the Storm favoured by the people of East Anglia and the at the special price of £15 inc p+p. building of a huge 40-footer to replace the old, Please telephone 01903 828503 quoting reference HWROS. privately owned boat at Southwold is evidence that the Institution was, at last, tailoring its lifeboats to satisfy local needs. The same year saw the first major bequest to the RNLI. In his will, Captain Hamilton Fitzgerald RN left the Institution £10,000 (the equivalent in today's money of nearly £8m). It would be difficult to overstate the importance of this bequest, which more than doubled the Institution's annual income at a time when cash was badly needed- From then on a steadily increasing number of people remembered the RNLI in their wills and funds derived from legacies now amount to over 50% of the Institution's annual income. 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James Cable (not pictured) also McGillivray of Aberdeen and second coxswains John member Derek Simonds who is also a motor cruising achieved a certificate Cox (Campbeltown), John Atkinson (Lytham St and power boat instructor. following the course. Annes) and John Hunter (Scarborough). The RNLI's aim is for its crews to have commercially endorsed RYA certificates. The relationship with the RYA began in 1995, when the Atlantic and D class inshore lifeboat courses qualified li for the RYA's Advanced and Level 2 Power Boat certificates respectively. RNLI training staff have had to qualify as Yachtmaster Offshore instructors and examiners to conduct the RYA courses, using the two training lifeboats based at Poole. Plans are now well advanced for the RNLI Lifeboat College, which will be situated alongside the present training centre. The residential college will provide courses for RNLI crews and staff, and will bring all training under one roof for the first time. New Year Honours A lifeboat baby The following crew members and RNLI supporters Calshot crew members Di Hellens and Anthony have been honoured by Her Majesty the Queen in Carrier have become proud parents of a baby boy. the New Year Honours. Cieran John was born on 9 October, weighing 6lb 5oz. Little Cieran has already taken part in his first FOR SERVICE TO THE RNLI exercise: the day before the pregnancy was Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE) confirmed, Di and Tony were airlifted into search Charles Crockford and rescue helicopter India Juliet. The couple Mechanic at Tenby lifeboat station became Calshot lifeboat station's first married Frank Smith couple when they tied the knot in 1999. Coxswain/Second Mechanic at Salcombe lifeboat station John Williams Coxswain at Port St Mary lifeboat station OTHER AWARDS OF INTEREST Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (KCVOI Rear Admiral Patrick Rowe Deputy master and chairman of the corporate board of the Corporation of Trinity House and Ex Officio member of the Committee of Management Lieutenant, Royal Victorian Order (LVO) Nicolas Adamson Private secretary to HRH The Duke of Kent Commander, Order of the British Empire (CBE) Mary Williams For charitable service to Cockermouth and RNLI box secretary, Cockermouth branch Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings reaches the final leg of his epic voyage - travelling from Aith, in the Shetland Islands, to Eyemouth on the Scottish mainland. It is sheltered mooring appropriate that for the station's all- we commence weather lifeboat. the final leg of this Plans are complete epic circumnavigation at for a new, modern the northernmost limit of the shore facility and RNLI's domain - the Shetland work should be Islands. When it comes to well in hand by the displays of raw wave power there coming summer. can be few areas to rival coasts of Some 20 miles these islands. southeast, in the Muckle Flugga, just off the shelter of Bressay, northern tip of Unst, with its lies the town of lighthouse built by David Lerwick with its Stevenson in the 1850s, thriving harbour. obstinately defies the elements Oil revenues have that can throw solid water over funded new the 200ft rock with its white brick developments and tower. An observer on the examples of modern architecture around with 48 squads of Vikings Top right: The original adjacent GOOft cliffs of Herma have appeared amidst the solid with torches at the ready. 'Old Tolbooth'at Lerwick, which is to be Ness, if not blown over, must also stone of the older buildings. One There were rumours that a restored to provide dodge the aggressive attentions of these - the Old Tolbooth - will little drinking accompanied the new lifeboat crew of the bonxies (Arctic Skuas). hopefully soon be the lifeboat celebrations but we were unable facilities Swooping out of the mist to crew's new home. Plans have to find anybody sober enough to protect their exposed moorland been prepared for the restoration verify this before departing Below right: The nests, these birds can make the of this notable Georgian building several days later. recently refurbished sea seem a safer bet. But enough and it is hoped to have work in The Orkney Islands present a harbour board office of dawdling - we must set forth hand by the spring. much more gentle landscape than building at Stromness southwards by road and ferry. While January in Lerwick was their northern cousins, but sea provides new lifeboat Aith, nestling at the head of a particularly cold this year, conditions around the rugged crew facilities. small bay of the same name, is Shetlanders have a festival coasts provide plenty of hazards Below: The breakwater still exposed enough to require its designed to banish the chill. Up for the unwary sailor and justify at Aith giving shelter to own substantial breakwater - HellyAa has its origins in Viking three lifeboat stations. Kirkwall the station's Arun class. constructed in 1986 - to provide a traditions. This year there were was early in the current particularly strong connections with the lifeboat crew as one of their number was Guizer Jar (Chief Viking). After a full day of visiting around the town, the Viking squads marched with flaming torches to the park below the Town Hall where the centre piece of the parade, the replica Viking galley, met its flaming end as soon as Guizer Jar had disembarked - no time to hang www.lifeboats.org.uk modernisation programme, with being able to its shore facility building opened traverse the in 1990 and extended in 1996. Firth in contrary The station's Severn class ALB weather lies alongside the pier and plans conditions. are in hand to improve the berth Duncansby with a new pontoon system. Head lies at Stromness can be reached via the eastern a pleasant 18-mile road journey or end of the Firth a considerably longer sea and marks passage. Visitors arriving on the another key turning-point in our Much newer is the innovative Above: The unique ferry from Scrabster now have journey. Wick, just south of the boathouse at Kessock where we octagonal boathouse only a short walk to the lifeboat broad sweep of Sinclair's Bay, arrive after navigating the narrows at Kessock. station's recently completed new gives cover to the eastern between Chanory Point and Fort facilities in the renovated harbour approaches of the Pentiand Firth George. Originally established as board office building. and to a long stretch of coastline a D class station in 1993, the A relatively short journey to the southwest. In 1995 the station was subsequently across Hoy Sound and past the lifeboat left its slipway boathouse allocated an Atlantic 75. The light on Cava and through Weddel to lie afloat at a new berth and a transformation was completed in Sound brings us to Longhope new shore facility building was 2001 with the completion of the Brilliant blue skies have always constructed and opened in 1997. new octagonal boathouse within accompanied my previous visits As with many things in life the the shadow of the Kessock and these are preserved in a simple ones take the longest and bridge. Rumour has it that photograph showing the slipway the parking problem still remained construction was kept under station in its old red livery with in January 2002. observation by the dolphins that yellow irises in flower alongside. Beneath us lies the Great Glen take a special interest in this area. Times have moved on and fault; still occasionally active but Buckle, with its busy fishing although it is hoped that the old formed back in the Devonian harbour and boatyard, lies just to boathouse will be preserved and period some 370m years ago the east of the Spey estuary. Its provide a home for the renovated when two ancient continents new boathouse and integral ALB Thomas McCunn, the station's collided marking the final demise berth were completed in 1995. Arun class ALB now lies afloat of the lapetus Ocean and forcing We are now getting well into the and a new crew building stands the northern part of Scotland into fishing communities of the solidly on the main pier of the its current position in relation to Scottish east coast, where harbour. A new berth and the rest of Britain. Embryonic lifeboat stations become more protective breakwater should Britain, however, still had far to closely spaced, supported by the soon follow. travel being somewhere just numerous communities whose It is about two hours by ferry south of the equator and enjoying histories and economies are from Stromness to the harbour at desert conditions, the present day bound to the sea. Scrabster - home of an active results of which are seen in the The coastline becomes more fishing fleet and the only lifeboat red sandstones that grace many rugged as we cross Cullen Bay Below: Construction on the north coast of mainland of Scotland's older buildings. and pass by Portsoy and of the new facilities Scotland - Thurso A recent deal Following the fault line we Whitehills before homing in on at Thurso. with the harbour trust saw the pass the light at Tarbat Ness and demise of the old slipway enter Cromarty Firth and dock at boathouse and the construction of Invergordon. Later in the year a new shore facility during the we might have had to share our summer of 2001. The final act of visit with parties of tourists from the station's makeover will be a the cruise liners which regularly new sheltered berth that should call - a possible connection with finally be forthcoming this summer. the proximity of a number of Departing to the east, Dunnet distilleries? The station's Trent Head marks both the class lifeboat lies alongside one of northernmost point of mainland the harbour's piers. Soon after our Britain and the western limit of departure the ten-year-old crew the Pentiand Firth with its building, which is supported on infamous tidal races - it is only in piles over the water, survived the recent times that modern high unwelcome attentions of a large, powered lifeboats could guarantee wayward barge. 1 Under freezing conditions and continuing problem in the harbour heavy snow it is difficult to and further dredging is planned appreciate fully the many miles of for later in the year. sandy beaches that lead into Long Craig, Lang Craig, Meg's Aberdeen from the north and Craig and the Deil's Head all lie on give the city a splendid the short haul to Arbroath, home recreational area which can easily to one of only three slipway- be missed by a visitor to the launched Mersey lifeboats and a Granite City who does not explore D class ILB. The old slipway beyond the town centre and boathouse was adapted in 1993 docks area. Two lifeboats serve for the Mersey but siltation was Aberdeen - a Severn lies afloat an ongoing problem only recently and a D class resides in the new alleviated by dredging and an the lighthouse at Macduff boathouse. completed in 1997. extension of the slipway. Above: Harbour Conditions in the harbour require A visit to the excellent It is not siltation but erosion conditions at Macduff the lifeboat to have the ability to Maritime Museum adjacent to the that is the problem further south require the lifeboat to launch from a number of inner harbour was a humbling where the dunes of Budden Ness be launched from a locations. To achieve this, the experience. A fully detailed model are in retreat, much to the special launching truck vessel is permanently stowed on of an offshore oil production consternation of the army, who with hydraulic rig. a special launching truck with its platform soars through several lost several ranges in the 1980s. floors of the museum; 2001 was a year of major change Centre: The new crew own integral hydraulic lifting building at Longhope. system. The new boathouse, confirmation that modern for Broughty Ferry, which lies on completed in 1999, had to engineers have lost none of the the north shore of the Firth of Tay Below right: accommodate this special rig. ingenuity from which their just east of the city of Dundee. A Constructing the new Small bays and rugged professional name derives. substantial new piled jetty was piled jetty at Broughty headlands continue until we pass constructed to provide a Ferry. Rosehearty, where sand returns sheltered berth, boarding and before we round Kinnaird Head to refuelling facilities for the station's the welcome of Fraserburgh's new Trent class lifeboat and the twin lighthouses. The lifeboat old slipway boathouse went afloat in 1997 when a new modernised to provide an berth was completed. Crew and excellent new training room and support facilities remain in the old housing for the co-located ILB. slipway boathouse, which has When in spate the river often seen some modernisation with carries substantial debris including more to come. tree trunks and, in winter, ice Our course now takes its final Our course is now floes can cause severe loading on major change of direction as we south-southeast following a any structure that protrudes into swing around Rattray Head and relatively straight, if more rugged the river, as well as acting as make due south for mainland coastline to Stonehaven and efficient paint strippers on the Scotland's most easterly point onward past the remains of lifeboat. and Europe's busiest whitefish Dunottar Castle. The mass of the Just around Fife Ness, at the landing port - Peterhead. Grampian Mountains with their entrance to the Firth of Forth, lies Peterhead harbour has forests and peaks soaring to over Anstruther with its conventionally developed significantly in recent 4,000ft lie inland and are the housed Mersey. The-original years to provide facilities to source of many rivers draining boathouse was very much in the match those of its continental eastwards. These include the traditional solid masonry style and, European competitors. North and South Esk rivers with over the last 10 years, this has In 1999 the harbour their estuaries bracketing progressively been developed first Below: Aberdeen's commissioners and the RNLI Montrose's links and beaches. new boathouse was completed in 1997. cooperated to mutual advantage. Montrose was one of the first An afloat berth was created for stations in Scotland to be the ALB and the port's pilot boat modernised, back in 1989, Since and new shore facilities provided then there have been further for the lifeboat crew. The site of works related to the housing and the old slipway station was then launching of the ILB and a new made available to facilitate further pontoon berth for the ALB was development of the port. completed last year. Siltation is a I www.lifeboats.org.uk to house the Mersey in 1991 and dilemma for the RNLI. The old red entrance but has been afloat for a then to improve the crew facilities sandstone lifeboat house stands number of years. In 1992 a new in 1995. beside the harbour and is home building was provided after much Legend has it that King to the D class ILB while the negotiation with the planning Alexander III, riding home one all-weather lifeboat lies afloat a authority but, as is often the case, dark and stormy night in 1286, few miles down the A1 in the this resulted in a compromise and inadvertently rode over the cliffs Torness Nuclear Power Station pressure is now on for an to his death near Kinghorn harbour. Depth restrictions in extension to give greater space Above: The old Storm surges from the North Sea Dunbar harbour have put for the storage of the crews' Victoria Cafe - once occasionally wash over the unacceptable launching restriction personal protective gear and a again sen/ing as North Berwick promenade and require storm on the Trent class lifeboat. Various bigger training room - a little job lifeboat station. boards to be put in place to solutions have been considered to take back to the office. protect the doors of the and, at the time of our visit, To complete the trip we return boathouse that was opened in discussions were still in hand on to England and Berwick-Upon- 1995. Let's hope that global alternative permanent solutions at Tweed - a good opportunity to warming does not proceed too Dunbar and Torness. reflect upon was has happened fast, otherwise the services of After initially having the road since we set out so hopefully in King Canute may be required. and railway for company, we bear 1997. During those 41/2 years 40 Just west of Edinburgh lies east along a more remote boathouses have either been Queensferry with its Atlantic ILB. coastline to Wheat Stack and completely or substantially rebuilt, The boathouse, completed in sight the St Abbs light. The St 18_other major berth and quay 1989, is overshadowed by a Abbs inshore lifeboat shares the works completed and many other daunting neighbour - the much- harbour with many prospective improvements made to stations. painted Forth Bridge. Behind the customers. On a busy day Also, five new divisional bases lifeboat station is the Hawes Inn something akin to an air-traffic have been designed and built - with its rooms named after control system seems warranted they were hardly a glimmer in the famous people. On an earlier visit to track the dive boats. The RNLI's eye when we set out. I found myself in the Robert Louis slipway boathouse has been Oh yes, then there is the small Stevenson suite. It is ironic that modified several times over the matter of the four new Thames this room should have a view of years to cater for the different lifeboat stations and the new such a famous engineering feat classes of lifeboat. In 1998 the inland waterway stations. FSB2, when, as a member of the crew facilities were improved and the 25knot replacement for the Below: Launching previously mentioned dynasty of work was in hand during this Tyne class slipway lifeboat, has restrictions mean Scottish engineers, RLS should winter on the slipway itself. slipped from the drawing board that Dunbar's Trent have rejected his early And so we depart for our last into the water and work is well in class has to launch engineering training and made his destination. It is just a short haul hand preparing for the building from the power fame in the literary world - across Coldingham Bay whose and civil engineering works to station up the road but the old red Treasure Island being published in shifting sands are a continual support it. Cromer and Barrow sandstone 1883 a year after work started on cause of problems at Eyemouth were just a start - think how boathouse is still the bridge. A fishing port with a long history, much more we could have done if home to the Returning along the southern the town lies on a section of the we hadn't gone swanning off station's D class and shores of the firth we head for coast without a natural harbour around the coast. crew facilities. the lighthouse on Fidra and then refuge. On an October day in 1881 into the ancient harbour at North this was tragically highlighted. Berwick. The story of the The morning dawned fine and station's current boathouse is clear and the local fishing fleets complicated, its having originally set sail - before the end of that been built by the RNLI in the 19th day 40 vessels had foundered in a century, sold out of service in the sudden, disastrous storm: 194 1920s then re-purchased and men were lost leaving behind 93 restored in 1992 after life as the widows and 267 orphans. One of Victoria Cafe. the results of that tragedy was an With Bass Rock to port we increase in the number of pass St Baldred's Boat and, a barometers located in harbours to short while later, his Cradle before give some warning of making a cautious entry into approaching storms. Dunbar harbour. Dunbar is The lifeboat used to launch currently posing an operational from a slipway near the harbour I .I'Jjjvt, Sponsored by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE Handsomely Engraved. Created by World-Renowned Engraved bolster, selectively Wildlife Artist Rick Fields. The minted medal, set into the plated wilh 22 carat gold, reverse of the handle, bears features on intricate portrayal the emblem ol Franklin Mint of the rainbow trout- Collector Knives. i'2002 Franklin Mint Limited. Company registered in England No. 357362. ildlife art combined with incomparable knife ma king. A Franklin Mint Collector Penknife. 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This product is issued in an edition limited to 45 casting days and may be promoted in multiple offerings. Perfecting a Collecting Tradition. Lyme Regis Poole Weymouth KEY FACTS 1B69 Station established 1969 Centenary Vellum MEDAL HISTORY Silver 1825,1842.1B57, 1861UZI, 1890U2), 1949, 1977 Bronze 1948,1949.1965, 1972. 1988 Thanks on Vellum 1961,1965. 1967,1969.1972U21.1977, 1978.1985.1986 V^< THE BOATS Arun class lifeboat QN-1073 Robert Edgar Built 1980 Funding Mrs Esme Edgar and Mr Anthony Edgar ¥¥ * Atlantic 75 lifeboat B- 746 Phyl Clare III Funding A gift from Jack Weymouth lifeboat station, in nine Silver Medals and five Bronze which had engine andPhyl Cleare to Dorset, was established in 1869 Medals. The youngest ever and steering problems celebrate their Golden to replace Portland station, which recipient was 11-year-old Frederick 12 miles south of Portland Bill, Wedding had closed down in 1850. Funded Carter in 1890. He and 16-year-old and escorted her safely in a CREW by the Earl of Stratford, the Frank Perry saved one of two men westerly storm and heavy Coxswain; lifeboat gave assistance to whose boat had capsized in breaking seas in total darkness. Andy Sargent Mechanic vessels in distress on the north Weymouth Bay in a strong east The station currently operates Colin Pivey and east sides of Weymouth Bay. wind and heavy surf. The two boys an Arun and an Atlantic 75 but the Plus 22 volunteer crew The station is positioned in one rowed out to the rescue despite Arun class Robert Edgar is Honorary Secretary. of Britain's major leisure boating the strong risk of their own boat approaching the end of its life. Derek Sargent areas and as such is often the being either swamped or capsized After launching 189 times and (Derek received the Bronze lifeboat service's busiest station. in the broken water. helping 213 people, it is due to be Medal in 1988 when Coxswain/Mechanic at This requires particular dedication The last medal, in 1988, was withdrawn and replaced by a new Weymouth) from the volunteer crew, who awarded to the current honorary Severn class lifeboat. This isn't Chairman EW'Bill' Ludlow know that they can expect to hear secretary- Derek Sargent. The the only change for Weymouth. In Hon Treasurer Mary Carter Hon Medical Adviser DrWill the insistent bleep of their pagers lifeboat Tony Vandervell. under summer 2001, Weymouth beach Bowditch on average every three days. Derek's superb leadership, was one of the pilot sites for The activity of the station is rescued five of the crew of the beach rescue lifeguards and the SERVICES IN 2000 reflected in its remarkable haul of catamaran Sunbeam Chaser. scheme will continue in 2002. Weymoutfi was the busiest RNLI station m the whole of the UK and Republic o( Ireland during 2000 A major joint operation Launches 133 Lives saved 24 It isn't only leisure traffic that calls and Chivenor, together with People landed 42 on the service of the Weymouth lifeboats from Weymouth, People brought in 84 lifeboat. Its position in the centre of Exmouth and Alderney. Other the English Channel means that it ships, the warship HMS Kent and is often asked to help commercial the tug Anglian Duke also stood by. vessels. These can involve a wide They first attempted to get the range of rescue facilities. tug to tow the Britta Oden to In the early morning of 22 Portland but sea conditions were Above: Weymouth November, the roll-on-roll-off ferry too bad so it was decided to tow crew members Britta Oden was experiencing her to Southampton. At this point Inset Bronze Medal engine trouble 16 miles south of the Yarmouth lifeboat was also winner and honorary Portland Bill. With her engines launched. Once it arrived on secretary Derek Sargent stopped and a Force 9 Strong Gale scene the Weymouth lifeboat Picture Matoaiel Murrav blowing, she was rolling heavily. was able to return to station, after Left: The Britta Oden Helicopters scrambled from Lee 12 hours at sea. viewed from the lifeboat I I Leaving Lifesaver Main: Supporter Miss It was around this time last year that the Oban MacDonald, together with several other legacies. It Olive Whitehead lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man is, therefore, no surprise that this type of income is bequeathed the whole who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vital to maintain a modern and efficient lifeboat of her residuary estate vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, service. Naturally, the RNLI welcomes all legacies, to the lifeboat service p.18). The crew's pagers went off when most of the large or small, as they all count towards the with the request that it town was safely tucked up in bed and the station's important total - whether they provide a whole be used to fund a Trent class lifeboat, Mora Edith MacDonald. arrived lifeboat or a pair of yellow wellies. Without them the lifeboat named in memory of her parents. on scene just five minutes later. lifeboat crews could not do their job and that is why The legacy amounted This was a tricky rescue as the man was suffering the RNLI is so grateful to anyone who remembers to around €1.4m and from cold and exposure, and it was blowing a Near the lifeboats in their will. was used to purchase Gale Force 7, creating confused the Severn class seas for the lifeboat to navigate. lifeboat. The Fortunately, the story has a Whiteheads, for St happy ending thanks to the 'If the campaign succeeds in Mary's on the Isles of bravery and skill of the crew and only encouraging an additional Sally. their state-of-the-art lifeboat, 2% of the population to which was instrumental in remember a charity in their will, carrying out the rescue and saving the man's life. it would provide the voluntary This all-weather lifeboat cost sector with an extra £170m £1.175m when it was built in every year. That's more than the 1997 and the RNLI was able to fund her thanks to the £649,000 income generated by Live Aid' bequest of Miss Mora Edith - David Brann | www.lifeboats.org.uk Legacies provide almost a third of the total income of the top 500 charities and the RNLI relies on them more than most - in 2000 they represented RNLI sources of income 2000 more than half of its total income. However, they remain the most unpredictable source of funding for all charities. For the past 12 years around 13% of wills that go to probate include a charitable bequest, yet 67% of the population claim to support chanties on a regular basis during their lifetime. Research shows that the Legacies main reason that more supporters do not leave a legacy is simply that they never get round to it. , Furtdraistng With this in mind, a number of charities got together last year to form the Legacy Promotion | Investment income Campaign (LPC). David Brann, the RNLI'sfundraising and marketing director, was instrumental in getting Mechanising and lotteries the ball rolling and spent a six-month secondment as campaign director. The purpose of the campaign is to increase the number of people leaving something to charity in their will - any charity' says David. 'If the legacy campaign succeeds in only encouraging an additional 2% of the population to remember a charity in their • will, it would provide the voluntary sector with an extra £170m every year. That's more than the 'There is still a great deal of work to be done' income generated by Live Aid.' David says. 'In addition to raising the funds needed The LPC, which will run initially for three years, to run the campaign, we are working to forge strong has a consortium of over 70 members including alliances with other organisations that can help us many high-profile charities such as Oxfam, NSPCC achieve our goal. In particular, we are working and the RSPCA. This provides the campaign with a closely with the Giving Campaign, which was rich background of expert knowledge, skills and launched by the Treasury, Inland Revenue, Charities resources to draw on. Although recruitment has Aid Foundation and the National Council of Voluntary exceeded expectations - more than double the initial Organisations to promote the government's new tax target - the number signed up only represents a tiny incentives for charitable giving. We are also working fraction of the total number of charities in the hand in hand with the Institute of Charity Fundraising country so new members are actively being Managers who provide us with corporate structure encouraged to join the fold. and banking facilities.' Of course, the cost of such a venture is not With the recent appointment of a marketing insignificant and member organisations help finance agency, the Legacy Promotion Campaign is now the campaign, including all administration and poised to move into its crucial next phase which running costs. The lifeboat service got together with sees its work being researched and tested in the run the National Trust in October to host a meeting for up to the full launch to the general public towards the chief executives of participating charities to the end of 2002. agree funding for the campaign. 'This will be money well spent as legacies are the most cost effective form of fundraising' David Making a will explains. 'Although £1 spent on other forms of fundraising will typically raise less than £4 in The RNLI strongly recommends you make a will, whether or not you wish to include donations, the same amount spent on generating charities. A helpful legacy information pack, including the video The value of time, is legacy income is likely to raise more than £30.' So available free from John Marshall, legacies enquiry officer on 01202 663032. for many of its members, if the campaign raises just Once you have read it, the RNLI recommends the use of a solicitor to help you one additional residuary legacy, it will have partly or write the will in a way that properly reflects all your wishes. Home-made wills or wholly covered its subscription. those drawn up by people with no legal training can cause problems. David has completed his stint as director and will Finally, do review your will every few years or when there is a significant change now act as chairman of the LPC's steering group. in your life or circumstances. 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The Lifeboat speaks to Steve Baker, fundraising development manager, and Lucy Fry, fundraising materials coordinator, who have been taking a fresh look at the RNLI's fundraising materials. What are fundraising materials? What new products are available? Steve: Basically, everything we make available for Steve: We've always been asked for collecting our volunteers to fundraise with - whether it be a boxes to keep at home to save loose change. This collecting box or bucket, banners to advertise an has been difficult to accommodate with the 'People universally event, or a large mobile display unit. permanent lifeboat boxes such as you see in pubs. recognised a difficulty in recruiting new, So we have developed a pyramid-shaped cardboard younger members to Why have you recently been reviewing the range collecting box, which we are calling the home box. branches and guilds - of materials available? It can be posted flat and then assembled. They are this came across loud Lucy: It's good practice to take stock every few available through regional fundraising offices or and clear' years - we want to make sure that we are providing local fundraising area organisers and it is hoped - Steve Baker the best possible support with the budget that we they will make a significant contribution to income have. We recently spoke to a broad cross-section of this year. branch and guild members from all across the UK and Ireland. Can you justify the costs involved in producing these items? What were the main findings of these discussion Lucy: Definitely, in fact we are actually saving groups? money. There are now cheaper materials that we Steve: People universally recognised a difficulty in can use to make items like flags, banners and recruiting new, younger members to branches and collecting boxes. The cost of the home box is less guilds - this came across loud and clear. They also than 10p and can potentially raise £10-15 a time, disliked the cardboard trays used on flag days and which is really efficient fundraising. We are also said that all our materials should have a common looking at a very smart cardboard flag day box, which look and style. To our great concern, we also learned would save money on cleaning, postage and storage that shops and pubs are increasingly unwilling to but we are moving slowly with this and testing it in take our traditional double-ended boat collecting box London this spring. as it takes up loo much room on the counter and needs securing. Branch members also thought that How will you decide what new products are information on what was available was generally not needed in the future? 'It's good practice to well communicated. Steve: I would like to think that attitudes in the take stock every few lifeboat service have changed considerably in recent years - we want to make sure that we are What have you been doing to redress some of years. There was a time, many years ago, when we providing the best these issues? would design a new fifeboat, build it, deliver it to a possible support with Lucy: We designed a new order form clearly new station and say there you go! Now we work the budget that we illustrating everything available. We are also looking at closely with crew and coxswains through every step have' a smaller static box styled on a modern lifeboat, which of the development process to give them the best - Lucy Fry will give box secretaries an alternative. Most people boat for the job. we spoke to agreed that many fundraising items My aim is that this process of involvement should reflected a very traditional image of the lifeboat be the same with our fundraising volunteers. 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An excellent way for branches and The event, held on 19 October, was a great guilds to raise money within their success with around 250 revellers putting on their community is to ask groups, clubs, stetsons and joining in the dancing at the Margate Winter Gardens. businesses and individuals to do a The Starlight Dance School also performed during fundraising event for their branch the evening and an auction was held which saw or guild. some fierce bidding. Among the lots was an Albert Square road sign, autographed by the cast of Just one example of how this is working is the EastEnders. which raised £130, and a painting fundraising friendship between Margate fundraising donated by a local Thanet artist, which raised a branch and the Rebel Dance troupe. Following a little further £500. polite persuasion from branch committee member Margate branch chairman Derek Amas said Heather Samuel, the troupe agreed to put on a 'Thank you to everyone who made this happen. The special charity show and line dancing party, which Winter Gardens was very welcoming and the raised more than £2,500 for the lifeboats. evening was a huge success!' Musical support Grand prizewinners In November, the Forth Dimension Musical Society The delighted family receive the new Freelancer joined by put on five performances of Fiddler on the Roof at {L - Rl Sue Clifton, Greater London regional manager, Dick South Queensferry High School in Lothian - helping Seaman of Stanmore branch (which sold the winning ticket) to raise £180 for Queensferry lifeboat. The society and Joy Baker, senior area organiser. put on a production each year and invite a different chanty to collect after the shows. In December, Mr and Mrs Brian Mackey from The above picture shows members of the cast Edgware, Middlesex were thrilled to learn that they Diamond (L- R): Steven Burnett, Theresa McPhee, Jim Porter, had snapped up first prize in the RNLl Grand Draw supporters Mhairi Sheail and Walter Taylor. 2001 - a brand new Land Rover Freelander 1.8i with special sports body kit. Two of Burry Port's hardest working He can bear~ly wait - The draw, which raised over £150,000 in 2001, is supporters recently Berwicks Bear, AKA crew a well established annual event and tickets are sold celebrated their member Alistair Laing, by fundraisers at events ail through the year. diamond wedding waits excitedly for the Second prize, a Virgin holiday for two in Antigua, anniversary. Denis opening of the Berwick- was won by Mrs Anne McPhail of Nairn, Scotland. Phipps, aged 84, upon-Tweed fete on 11 Mr William Turner from Devon won the third prize, a has been a August. Over 2,000people committee member Mediterranean cruise for two, courtesy of Festival attended the event, which since the station included a stunning search Cruises, and the fourth prize of a multi-media family opened in 1973 and and rescue display, and PC was won by Mr W Gunter from Somerset. his wife Gwyneth is raised more than £5.500 Ten people also won joint fifth prizes of RNLl a member of the for the lifeboat service. sailing fleeces. ladies guild. E 11 Lifeboat-related On the road The Civil Service Motoring Association (CSMA) and reading Frizzell Financial Services, a subsidiary of Liverpool Victoria, donated three CSMA Chairman John Harrington (right) presents Vintage Worthing - images of a lifeboat town transit vans worth over cheque for over £66.000 to David Ttdman. RNLI 1914-1945 £66.000 to the lifeboat transport manager by Rob Blann service during a Price £14.95 + £3.50 p&p presentation on 24 January. ISBN: 09516277 3 2 The CSMA/Frizzelf charity fund has donated more than £400,000 to A view of Worthing life in the first half of the 20th the RNLI over the last 18 years, the majority of which was raised century and the final years of the town's lifeboat through competitions in the CSMA magazine, Motoring and Leisure. service. The book is illustrated with hundreds of Frizzell contributes towards prizes and provides administration for photographs, many of which are previously opening the thousands of envelopes received. unpublished. The new vans will be used for delivering emergency supplies to Part of the proceeds from this book are donated lifeboat stations around the country. Peter Chennell, general manager to the lifeboat service. Please make cheques payable supply, said 'These new vans will greatly enhance our ability to respond to Rob Blann and send orders to 39 Wallace Avenue, more effectively to the needs of our volunteer crews and their boats.' Worthing, West Sussex BN11 5QF. The Liverpool lifeboat disaster of 1892 by Jim Sullivan Price: £8.60 including p&p ISBN: 1 902964 10 1 One man's search for a missing piece of history and to trace a member of his family, who had been lost in the 1892 Liverpool lifeboat tragedy. Copies are available from Avid Publications, Garth Boulevard. Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside CH63 5LS. Please make cheques payable to W Roberts. Left: Don endures The great lifeboat disaster of 1886 the hair-raising event by J Allen Miller (new edition by Andrew Farthing) and, above, as he Price: £5.85 + 80p p&p used to look. ISBN: 1 874516 09 X Originally written to commemorate the centenary of Hair today... gone tomorrow the tragedy, this special edition includes a wealth of new photographs. Regulars gathered at The Swan public house in Alderton, near Copies are available from Sefton leisure services Woodbridge, to see Don Everest let his hair down literally in support of department (Finance CD), Pavilion Buildings, the lifeboat service. 99-105 Lord Street, Southport PR8 1RJ. Please make Don is an old seadog who joined the Royal Navy in 1948 and has cheques payable to Sefton MBC. been sporting his luxuriant head of hair and treasured beard for over 28 years. Challenged while he was enjoying his Sunday lunchtime tipple Don rose to the occasion. He set a target of £100 but the locals rallied Sorry round and started sponsorship lists. They raised £850 and gathered in On page 37 of the the pub on New Year's Eve to see Maureen Mee of Bawdsey fearlessly Winter 2001/02 issue wield the clippers while Martin Conroy, the chef at The Swan, proved of the Lifeboat we his carving skills by removing the last vestiges of Don's moustache. carried an article Luckily Don was anaesthetised by copious measures of whisky, his about the Great North favourite tipple. Run which took place on 16 September. The The Swan has raised over £1,200 for the lifeboats during the last year- accompanying picture was incorrectly captioned and enough to send three crew members on an introductory inshore should have read 'New Brighton lifeboat crew' not lifeboat training course. In 1852. the year the Lifeboat was first issued, 'Brighton' as stated. it would have paid for around 12 pulling and sailing lifeboats. www.lifeboats.org.uk Racing around Ramsey Nuns on mini-scooters, stilt-walkers and a horde of rampaging Vikings were just some of the colourful characters taking part in the 2001 Great Ramsey race which, raised over £2,000 for the lifeboat service. The annual race, held in July, is a fun event in which teams, dressed in a variety of costumes and using unusual modes of transport, travel to Ramsey lifeboat station from all over the Isle of Man. Entrants raise sponsorship money and compete to win a number of awards including most original form of transport, best dressed team, most cash raised and furthest distance travelled - which is possibly a bit of a challenge on a small island. The race is a popular feature of Ramsey lifeboat day and was devised to encourage younger people to support the lifeboats. 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