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Journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Volume 54 Number 534 The Lifeboat Winter 1995/96 Medal and Vellum Service Reports Lifeboat Stations from the air Message from the Director 0 - £10,000 in ten minutes Brand new car? Second-hand model? Customising your existing vehicle? Arranging a Personal Loan to keep you motoring (or just about any other purpose) has never been easier. Just pick up the phone and Frizzell can usually give you a decision on the spot for a loan of up to £10,000*. You'll be dealing with a company that prides itself on speed, efficiency and dependability. Borrow up to £10,000, subject Fixed rates for easy budgeting. to status. An instant decision in most cases can Phone from home - Lines are open be given when you phone. from Sam - 8pm Monday - Friday and Extra peace of mind with competitive 9am - 1pm Saturday. Payment Protection Cover. Make your application by phone. Call FREE on 0801 0 373191 quote reference -+OS -). Anytime between Sam - Spin Mond.i and 'Jam - 1pm Saturday FRIZZELL We'll make sure you never want to leave Frizzell Bank Limited, County Gates House, 300 Poole Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH1 3NQ. "Subject to status. Frizzell Bank l.uniied i* an authorised 111*1111111011 under ihe Banking Ac I 1987 Applicants muii be over 18 and in ri\nular emplmmem and in sonu- uti nmsi.uuis a ihird part\ Kiuramee may be requited A J"R!.l \\niten quotation is available on request The Winter 1995/96 Lifeboat RNLI News 78 Royal National What's happening in and around the Institution From the Director 8O Lifeboat The RNLI's Director, Lt Cdr Brian Miles CBE looks back Institution on an eventful 1995 Lifeboat Services 81 Contents Including Medal and Vellum award services... Volume 54 Ceremonies 86 Number 534 Lifeboats and boathouses named and opened Chairman: Your Letters 91 SIR MICHAEL VERNON Your views on all aspects of lifeboats and related subjects Director and Secretary: Bookshelf 94 LT CDR BRIAN MILES CBE RD FNI RNR Some recent publications reviewed Past and Present 95 From THE LIFEBOAT of 1896 and one of today's life-boatmen Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: JON JONES High Seas... 96 The first of a series of looks at lifeboat stations from Advertisement Manager: an unusual angle - the air JOHN FARNHILL Classified Advertisements: Lifeboat Services 98 MARION BARDSLEY June and Julyl995 Membership News 102 for Shoreline, Governors and Storm Force members Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The Fundraisers 103 West Quay Road. How some of the money is raised Poole. Dorset BH15 I HZ. Telephone Poole (01202) 671133 People and Places 111 Telex4132S. Around and about the RNLI Registered Charity No. 209603 Next Issue: The Spring issue of THE THE LIFEBOAT: THE LIFEBOAT is pub- COVER PICTURE LIFEBOAT will appear in April 1996, and lished four times a year and is sent free by news items should be received by 12 to RNLI members and Governors. February 1996, but earlier if possible. For further information on how to join Cumbrian Newspapers All material submitted for considera- the Institution as a Member or Governor HRH The Duchess of Kent aboard tion with a view to publication should contact the Membership section at RNLI Workington's Tyne class lifeboat be addressed to the Editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, during her visit to Cumbria. Dur- Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Dorset BH15 1HZ. ing the Duchess's visit she named Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ. Silloth's new Atlantic 75 and Photographs intended for return should be accompanied by a stamped, Printed by the Friary Press, Bridport Road, opened two new boathouses. Dorchester, Dorset addressed envelope. 77 NEWS NEWS NEWSPOINT Heritage grant for unique lifeboat collection One only has to look at the As reported in a 'Stop Press' names of the RNLI's lifeboat's item in the Autumn issue of to realise that a large percent- THE LIFEBOAT the RNLI has been age of them, indeed perhaps awarded a £355,000 grant by the majority, have been funded the National Lottery Heritage by legacies and bear the name Fund. of the donor or a close relative. When the lifeboats which The money will be used to are now part of the national safeguard the RNLI's collec- collection at Chatham were built tion of historic lifeboats and to this method of funding lifeboats present them in an innovative was a way of life - the boats way which will bring the his- were less expensive, even in tory of the lifeboat service to relative terms, and the wealth life. of the nation was, in general, in The Institution has always HRH Prince Philip viewed the lifeboat collection in Chatham while visiting the fewer hands and larger con- been keen to preserve its herit- Historic Dockyard in early 1995. The lifeboats had only recently arrived and centrations than today. were stored on a shingle base with simple information boards. Over the years the RNLI age, but has not been able to has received some 60% of its spend money donated for life- from the late 1800s up to the the 54ft Arun which was in income from legacies, but last saving work in this way. As a 1990s. The whole Dockyard service until last year when year there were some worrying result the collection, which had Complex is a fascinating slice she became the first of the class signs. For the first time in its been at a museum in Bristol of maritime history, and the to be withdrawn. history a real fall in legacy in- until that closed some years Covered slip itself is an im- An additional £250,000 is come was detected, and al- ago, has been housed at the portant historical building also available as a result of the though the 4% involved may Historic Dockyard in which complements the col- generosity of a private trust sound a small proportion that and the sale of old lifeboats decline has continued and, in- Chatham. lection admirably. deed, has accelerated. The Dockyard, itself a fas- The 15-boat collection in- and the whole project will now Superimposed on this fall in cinating and historic location, cludes a prototype Oakley, go ahead with completion legacy income has been an will form a magnificent set- which heralded the start of planned for Easter 1996. increase in the size, complex- ting for the display, which can modern self-righting lifeboats, There will be more details ity and therefore cost of life- now be presented in a modern as well as an early D class in- in the Spring issue of THE LIFE- boats. The result is that we and imaginative manner. flatable which, when intro- BOAT with - exhibition con- have reached a point where The collection will be on duced in the 1960s, started the struction schedules and jour- few legacies will now amount nal press dates permitting - to the full £1.4m of a new Sev- show in the Number 4 Cov- move towards faster lifeboats. ern or even the 50% tradition- ered Slip and represents the The latest addition - and by far photographs of the new dis- ally accepted as the minimum evolution of lifeboat design the largest in the collection - is plays. for naming the lifeboat. It is for these reasons that the Institution has taken the Legacy lifeline on the small screen steps which you will read about Sir John Harvey Jones (TV's to explain why legacies are so Value' and is linked with a on these news pages - produc- Troubleshooter), newsreader important to the Institution booklet of the same title which ing a new leaflet and a new Michael Buerk, weatherman video about legacies and their and to encourage those mak- has also been released recently importance to the RNLI. Peter Cockcroft and Salcombe ing a will to consider the RNLI by the Institution. It may seem a little maca- lifeboat coxswain Frank Smith as a beneficiary. Joining the TV stars are oth- bre to be concentrating on this (himself no stranger to Televi- The video, based on an im- ers who, although not house- element of fundraising - but in sion) all feature on a new video aginary RNLI News Bulletin, hold faces, are just as impor- truth it is not. By bringing this production made by the RNLI is called 'Preserving all You tant too the RNLI's success. matter to the public's attention Troubleshooter Sir John Harvey Jones talks to lifeboat coxswains Malcolm Among them are Steve Vince, now the RNLI hopes that those MacDonald, Frank Smith and Steve Vince aboard Lerwick's new Severn class Malcolm MacDonald and currently making their wills will lifeboat during the making of the video 'Preserving all You Value'. consider the Institution's needs Charles Sharrod, coxswains at and allow it to plan with confi- Poole, Lerwick and Hastings dence. They will also know that respectively, and also Yolande they are helping to secure the Rampton from Surrey. Miss Institution's future as well as its Rampton may not be a life- present. boat crew member, but it was Legacies need not be large she who - by funding Hasting's ones - many lifeboats have been funded by combining sev- D class, made some rescues eral legacies and appeals possible in the first place! 'topped up' by generous smaller The booklet 'Preserving All bequests. You Value' is available free The fall in legacy income is from RNLI headquarters and worrying, but it can be over- the video should be available \come if action is taken now.