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3lume 53 Number 523 Fhe Lifeboat pring 1993 Silver Medal and Vellum Services New Trent and Severn classes News and Views The prototype Severn class Loa 17m (55ft 9in) Beam 5.5m (18ft) Draft 1.68m (5ft 6in) Displacement 37.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots

H The Spring 1993 Lifeboat

Royal National RNLI News What's happening in and around the Institution Lifeboat Lifeboat Services Institution Notable launches around the coast Fast Work 11 Contents The development of the 25-knot FABs 3 and 4 - now the Volume 53 Severn and Trent classes Past and Present 15 Number 523 From THE LIFEBOAT of 1963 and one of today's lifeboatmen

Chairman: Ceremonies 16 MICHAEL VERNON New all-weather and inshore lifeboats named and dedicated

Director and Secretary: Your Letters 17 LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Your views on all aspects of lifeboats and related subjects Membership News 18 Last year, this year and TV adverts Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Bookshelf 19 Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Books of RNLI and maritime interest reviewed Lifeboat Services 20 Advertisement Manager: Services for August, September and October 1992 BARBARA TROUSDELL Classified Advertisements: Around the Fundraising Regions 23 MARION BARDSLEY Branches and guilds from the Southern and Republic of Ireland regions The Fundraisers 25 Fundraising events across the British Isles Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, People and Places 31 West Quay Road, Around and about the RNLI Poole, Dorset BH15 I HZ. Awards to Coxswains and Crew Members 33 Telephone Poole (0202) 671133 Telex 41328. Registered Charity No. 209603

Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE THE LIFEBOAT: THE LIFEBOAT is pub- COVER PICTURE LIFEBOAT will appear in July 1993, and news lished four times a year and is sent free of by Rick Tomlinson/ items should be received by 17 May 1993, charge to RNLI members and Governors. but earlier if possible. For further information on how to join the Rothmans Sailing All material submitted for consideration Institution as a Member or Governor contact with a view to publication should be ad- the Membership section at RNLI Headquar- Donaghadee's Arun Class lifeboat dressed to the Editor, THE LIFEBOAT, Royal ters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 City of Belfast shows her mettle in National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay 1HZ. Subscriptions are also available - con- some heavy weather near her Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ. tact the Editor at the same address for details. station. Photographs intended for return should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed enve- Printed by the Friary Press, Bridport Road, lope. Dorchester, Dorset NEWS NEWS

Newspoint Top Award for RNLI crew The rescue of six survivors Ten years after the capsize from a yacht in atrocious of the Salcombe lifeboat weather conditions last Au- the double capsize of Har- gust won St Peter Port lifeboat tlepool's Waveney class coxswain Peter Bisson the lifeboat in February 1993 brings home once again RNLI's Silver Medal and re- that the sea is a harsh mis- sulted in the eight crew tress, and that those who members of the Arun class venture out-particularly in lifeboat receiving the Thanks conditions which have of the Institution Inscribed on driven almost every other Vellum. boat to shelter - face risks Their achievements were which are very real indeed. also recognised outside the The very fact that The Institution when the entire Scout righted herself not crew were awarded the 1992 once, but twice after being National Rescue Award at the Sir Peter de la Billiere (extreme right) presents the Silk Cut National Rescue capsized by giant breaking Silk Cut National Awards on Award to Peter Bisson (right of group) and members of the St Peter Port seas proves beyond doubt lifeboat crew 24 November 1992. that the vast effort ex- pended by the Institution in Coxswain Bisson and three sented with the prestigeous the words'.. .the coolness, skill providing the very best of crew members represented the award by General Sir Peter de and bravery shown by every- equipment for the volun- entire crew at a presentation la Billiere, the British Gulf War body on the lifeboat that night teer crews is effort well lunch at the Dorchester Hotel, Commander, they heard the was extremely impressive.' spent. London. Before being pre- nomination summed up with The Silk Cut Nautical The RNLI has recently Awards were judged by a dis- announced two new tinguished panel headed by classes of lifeboat - de- Name for first Trent round-the-world yachtsman scribed elsewhere in this The prototype of the new It was decided however Chay Blyth and including an issue-which will cost more Trent class fast afloat lifeboat that the money from the ap- RNLI representative, Alan than £1m each. Can any- is to be named RNLB Earl and peal should be linked with the Tate, superintendent of the one question the cost of a Countess Mountbatten oj"Burma name Mountbatten. Institution's Inshore Lifeboat lifeboat when they can face, at a ceremony to be held later and survive, the conditions The first of a new genera- Centre at Cowes. experienced at Hartlepool? this year. The lifeboat will form tion of fast lifeboat - the origi- The service leading to the Lifeboatmen's equip- part of the relief fleet, although nal concept of the Medina - award and to the Silver Medal ment is as good as modern it is likely that her first duty has provided an ideal oppor- and Vellums was reported in de- technology can provide, will be as a temporary station tunity to honour the tail in the Winter 1992/93 issue and to hear comments by lifeboat. Mountbatten name. of THE LIFEBOAT. crew member Robbie The name has been chosen Maiden on the effective- to fulfil an obligation to name ness of his clothing and a lifeboat in honour of Earl training after spending 35 and Countesss Mountbatten Open days 1993 minutes in an icy North Sea following an appeal launched in darkness and snow in 1979 which was originally squalls is also proof enough The bi-annual Open Days at the RNLI's Poole headquar- intended to fund a new, large that no corners can ever be ters and depot are scheduled for Friday and Saturday 23 cut in the lifeboat service. class of rigid inflatable. and 24 July 1993. The Open Days begin at 1000 and run However, it is the men The 1979 appeal to fund until 1800 on both Friday and Saturday and will feature and women themselves the first of the Medina class - a many events and demonstrations for young and old. who make the RNLI what it 40ft rigid inflatable - had been Among the attractions planned for this year is one of is, no matter how good their launched only a few days be- the prototype Severn or Trent class lifeboats, described equipment. Volunteers fore Lord Louis Mountbatten's elsewhere in this issue, and members of the Salcombe willing to face any weather murder and succeeded in lifeboat crew fresh from their appearance on the televi- at any time. Men who will raising almost £240,000, sion series 'Lifeboat' on the ITV network. put to sea in a 44ft boat in enough for two boats. Capsize drills for Atlantic and D class lifeboats, heli- weather whose fury has It was proposed that the copter transfers and the chance to tour depot and head- driven a 97,000 ton tanker first and second boats be quarters sites are all part of what is always a well- ashore, men who can take named Mountbatten of Burma two capsizes in their stride attended and interesting day out. and who can then joke after and Countess Mountbatten of There will be more details in the Summer issue of THE being snatched by heli- Burma but, after eight years of LIFEBOAT, but make sure to note the dates in your diary copter from icy waters. development it was decided now! They all deserve our that the design would not meet Please note that the Open Days area week earlier than usual admiration - and total, un- the rigorous requirements of due to tidal considerations off the depot quay. equivocal support. the RNLI and that work should cease on the project. NEWS NEWS

Jolly Good Show! Lifeboats on television

A major six-part series on the Salcombe lifeboat is due to be broadcast on the ITV network starting on Wednesday 28 April 1993. The 30-minute pro- grammes, filmed by Central TV, will be shown at 7pm each Wednesday - a 'slot' which should guarantee massive public exposure for the RNLI and its work.

For the first time the RNLI was able to very successful 'in-show flag day'. With display a modern all-weather lifeboat at the the unstinting help of members from sev- London Boat Show in January complete eral London branches the flag day added with slipway and boathouse. some £3,500 to the Institution's total takings. The slipway and boathouse were, of As usual the show provided a high pro- VAT SOS course, wooden replicas in the best boat file opportunity to accept several large The RNLI launched an appeal show tradition, but the Tyne class herself cheques from corporate donors, among to the Chancellor of the Ex- was real enough, and benefited from being them more than £95,000 from the Royal chequer just before Christmas shown in a more realistic setting. Bank of Scotland - the proceeds of the 1992 to free it of an annual The design of the stand enabled visitors affinity credit card for the year. £750,000 VAT bill in this year's to go aboard the lifeboat, resulting in con- The RNLI's annual Public Relations budget. siderable interest and enthusiasm - plus an Awards were also made on the central The Institution asked all its endless stream of questions for the tireless display to recognise invaluable support in lifeboat stations, fundraising lifeboat crews from Selsey, Lowestoft publicising the work of the Institution. branches and members to Cromer and Shoreham who manned her in This year's awards went to BBC South write to their MPs and the rotation. Today and artist Tim Thompson. Chancellor asking for their Although attendance at the show was South Today broadcast a nightly, week- support in promoting a down by around 11% the RNLI's receipts long series of films in their news programme scheme under which VAT were only 6% down at some £52,000. The following the progress of the new Swanage paid by charities is refunded Chelsea pensioners bucked the trend by Mersey class through construction, trials, by the government. increasing their contribution - with visitors training and arrival on station. The series The argument put forward dropping more than £9,820 into their col- concluded with a live broadcast from by the Institution is that vital lecting boxes. Swanage when the lifeboat was launched services funded by local and National Boat Shows contributed the to begin her official term of service. central government already stand space - the largest the RNLI has ever Tim Thompson, a marine artist of inter- receive a full VAT rebate, and had - and Volvo once again made generous national repute, painted 30 gold medal res- that charities, such as the contributions to the cost of building the cue scenes to illustrate the book 'RNLI RNLI, which provide other stand. Volvo also bought a day's use of the Gold Medal Rescues'. He spent two years equally vital services should central pool area - a new facility this year - researching and producing the paintings not have to pay a tax to the which provided the Institution with a for the book which has so far produced government in order to carry splendid platform to stage a special and £4,000 in advance royalties. out their work. The appeal resulted in a (Top) The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen large number of letters to MPs and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand. The wooden slipway and and the Chancellor in addi- 'boathouse' can be seen in the background. tion to wide coverage in the Photo Mike Anker, Take 2 media. Many newspapers and (Left) Just one of the cheques presented at the show - more than £95,000 from the local television stations ex- Royal Bank of Scotland, the proceeds of the tended the appeal to a broader affinity credit card for the year. A delighted Ian Ventham, RNLI head of fundraising (left) audience, although as this is- receives the cheque from Gary Hodson and sue goes to press before the John Jenkins of RBS. 1993 budget there is no news as to the final success of the campaign. _IFE ES...LIFEBOAT SERVICE ,. Lifeboat ;'••! Services /• j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA

Seventeen saved from Hayling Island 75ft yacht aground in Hayling Island gale and 20ft breakers South East Division Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue Solent Coastguard received a Mayday of 17 people from a 75ft yacht aground in gale force winds and 20ft seas from the 75ft ketch Donald Searle which had anchored at the eastern end of Chich- at the entrance to Chichester Harbour last October. ester Bar after her sails had been blown Roderick James becomes the first in- out in a 50-knot westerly gale and her shore lifeboat helmsman to win a second Silver Medals engines had failed. There were 17 people Silver Medal, his first being in 1981. aboard and the yacht was dragging her Crew member Frank Dunster has al- Helmsman Roderick James anchor slowly eastward as she was hurled ready won the RNLI Bronze Medal twice Crew member Frank Dunster about in 15ft to 20ft breaking seas. (in 1980 and 1981) and braved the same At the time of the Mayday, Hayling conditions in his own rigid inflatable res- Island's Atlantic 21 lifeboat Aldershot was cue boat when he realised that the life- Thanks on Vellum on service to a boardsailor inside Chich- boat was already engaged in a separate Crew members: ester Harbour, but other crew members rescue and could not give immediate as- at the station were monitoring the trans- sistance. Christopher Reed, mission from the stricken yacht. Without In his official report, the deputy divi- Warren Hayles, Evan Lamperd hesitation helmsman Frank Dunster de- sional inspector of lifeboats for the south and Damien Taylor cided to launch his own 28ft rigid inflat- east, Colin Williams, wrote of helmsman able Hayling Rescue which was kept at the Roderick James: The fact that the Atlan- nearby marina. By 1212 the single-engined tic 21 did not founder in the steep break- The RNLI's Thanks Inscribed on Vel- rescue craft was under way, with Dunster ing seas was doubtless due to his consid- lum has been awarded to the crews of at the helm and two further lifeboat sta- erable skill and boat handling.' He added: both the Hayling Island lifeboat - tion volunteers, Evan Lamperd and 'Frank Dunster showed great initiative Christopher Reed and Warren Hayles - Damien Taylor as crew. and courage by launching his own boat in and of the rescue boat - Evan Lamperd Breaking conditions where he knew he would be at and Damien Taylor. As they headed south towards the Bar great risk.' At 1150 on Sunday 25 October 1992 they began to feel the effects of the west- erly wind and could see 20ft waves Lifeboat crew member Frank Dunster (left) who took his own rigid inflatable to the casualty and Roderick James (right) helmsman of the Hayling Island Atlantic 21. breaking on the bar. Frank Dunster in- tended to stand by the yacht, as he knew that the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat from Bembridge was on her way. However, he could not tell the ketch's crew as VHP Channel 16 - the main calling and dis- tress frequency - was jammed by an un- known transmission. As soon as Hayling Rescue reached the bar Dunster knew his plan would have to change. The ketch was in water so shal- low and so perilously close to the Target Wreck that the larger Bembridge lifeboat would have great difficulty in getting alongside. Dunster radioed for urgent helicopter assistance but in the violent conditions could not tell whether the re- quest had been received. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.. ..LIFEBOAT SERVICES..„ ..LIFEBOAT SER STOP PRESS - Capsize of Hartlepool Lifeboat Shortly before this issue went to press Hartlepool's though suffering some damage - particularly to commu- Waveney Class lifeboat The Scout capsized twice while nications and navigational equipment. on service to the 97,000 ton tanker Freja Svea which was One crew member was washed overboard and spent 35 dragging her anchor and eventually went aground in minutes in the wa- Hartlepool's Waveney class lifeboat The Severe Gale Force onshore winds on 28 February 1993. ter before being re- Scout- self righted after two capsizes. The lifeboat was launched to escort Teesmouth's covered by an RAF Tyne back to station - which had been knocked down helicopter. All the and lost the use of one engine - and to take over stand- crew are safe al- by duty. She was capsized by steep breaking seas while though some suf- standing by the tanker in about 16m of water. fered minor inju- Contrary to some press reports at the time she righted ries. Full details in herself in a matter of seconds on both occasions, al- the next issue.

Picking his way through the seas, sionally using full throttle to power the decision was taken to place crew member Dunster approached Donald Searle. The lifeboat through the biggest crests. One Christopher Reed aboard the casualty to ketch was being picked up and thrown to sea was so steep that it stood the lifeboat help, and on the sixth approach Reed leeward, then returned to her original on end and helmsman James was con- boarded the ketch as two more survivors heading by the strong tidal stream. As vinced she was about to capsize bow over jumped into the lifeboat. she edged inexorably eastward towards stern. Wedging himself between the aft cabin the sunken wreck, Dunster moved in to and the guard rail Christopher Reed was the rescue. able to grasp the line and the helicopter Approaching from the north he headed winchman was soon being hauled to- for the casualty's starboard quarter and, wards the ketch. Helmsman James was on the second attempt, came alongside 'the lifeboat broke now able to head for Hayling lifeboat and took off the first of the yachf s crew - station with his seven survivors, know- but not before Hayling Rescue's bow had away each time to ing that the helicopter should be able to been thrown high in the air by a huge winch the remaining eight survivors to breaking sea. avoid being crushed safety. On the 15-minute return journey Jumped 7 the lifeboat passed Frank Dunster's Helmsman Dunster tried once again by the casualty Hayling Rescue, which was returning to to push the bow against the ketch's quar- the casualty. ter, but had to go astern rapidly as the Contact casualty surged upwards on the crest of One of his crew, Warren Hayles, was By 12.42 Bembridge lifeboat was on another great sea and threatened to crush thrown backwards from his seat but re- scene and she too moved in to help in the Hayling Rescue on her descent. In spite of mained on board. The other crew mem- evacuation. However, during a very dif- this Dunster edged towards the ketch ber, Christopher Reed, realised that both ficult approach by her coxswain Archibald and a female crew member jumped just engines had stalled and rushed forward Henley the two vessels made heavy as the two vessels were forced apart by to start the port one, while James hur- contact as the yacht was thrown 20ft to the seas. She fell into the water, but was riedly pressed the starboard starter but- leeward by a sea. Although one survivor quickly pulled aboard by Damien Taylor ton. Control was regained just in time had been pulled aboard both vessels had and Evan Lamperd. and those on the shore were amazed, and been damaged and the coxswain decided By now Frank Dunster was becoming relieved, to see the lifeboat upright and it would be safer to stand off and allow increasingly concerned for the safety of continuing southward. the helicopter winching to continue on its his own boat, as only intense concentra- The Atlantic reached the casualty at own. tion on his part was avoiding a capsize. the same time as the rescue helicopter By 1252 the mission was accom- Knowing that Bembridge lifeboat and, he arrived. Helmsman James began a series plished, with all seven remaining yacht hoped, the Coastguard helicopter would of approaches with crew member crew, lifeboat crew member Christopher soon be on the scene, he headed for the Christopher Reed in the bow, ready to Reed and the winchman safely aboard calmer waters of Chichester Harbour. help survivors. Five times helmsman the helicopter. With five people aboard his boat was James put the lifeboat's port inflatable Hayling Rescue and Hayling Island difficult to handle in the following seas sponson alongside the ketch's starboard lifeboat, which had also returned to the and, at one point, she was caught diago- side, breaking away each time to avoid casualty after landing the survivors could nally across a breaking sea and surfed being crushed by the casualty as she rose now return to their base. The survivors down it at a dangerous angle. Dunster and fell in the heavy swell. After the five taken off by the helicopter were landed landed his two survivors at Hayling Is- approaches five people had been taken close to the lifeboat station and the one land lifeboat station at 1235 . off Donald Searle. survivor taken off by Bembridge lifeboat Meanwhile, Hayling Island's Atlan- Meanwhile the helicopter was at- was landed at her lifeboat station. tic 21 lifeboat was making her way to- tempting to pass a line to the yacht's crew The empty yacht was recovered next wards Donald Searle. Her helmsman, so that winching could begin, but their day, two cables west of the Target Wreck Roderick James, picked his way deliber- efforts were being hampered by the and severely damaged from the pound- ately through the steep 20ft seas, occa- mizzen mast and the violent motion. The ing she had received on the sand. 5 LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERl

RUDDERLESS CASUALTY LOCATED IN OVERFALLS Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas

Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Swanage Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Swanage Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the rescue of four people from the yacht Aeolian on 25 October 1992. South East Division In his official report, Christopher Price, the inspector of lifeboats for the south east wrote: 'Coxswain Haw displayed XHanlcs on she had run under auxiliary engine power first class boat handling and sound sea- to clear the dangers along the south coast manship in appalling sea conditions'. For Vellum of the Isle of Wight. their involvement in the service second Swanage lifeboat located her in the coxswain Nicholas Harris, assistant me- overfalls off St Catherine's Point, lying chanic Martin Steeden and crew mem- diagonally across the waves with heavy bers Desmond Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Marsh wind and, with a very heavy breaking sea seas constantly breaking over her. She and Tony Byron have been awarded Vel- on her starboard quarter, the coxswain was rolling her gunwales under, taking lum Service Certificates. and crew stayed inside the wheelhouse heavy water aboard and her jib was in At 0655 on 25 October 1992 Portland for security. shreds. Coastguard informed Swanage lifeboat The lifeboat passed the Fairway Buoy In the Force 8-9 wind and very rough station that the 40ft yacht Aeolian had been near the Needles at 0753 and was told seas, estimated at 25ft, coxswain Haw knocked down off the Needles channel that the casualty was now just under four decided that it would be impossible to and one person had been lost overboard. miles from St Catherine's Point, the most tow the casualty which, in any event, The four people remaining aboard re- southerly point on the Isle of Wight. appeared to be in danger of sinking. He quired immediate assistance. A Coastguard helicopter was stand- recommended that the yacht be aban- Shelter ing by the yacht, the conditions being too doned, and the lifeboat prepared to come Swanage's all-weather Mersey class dangerous to airlift the survivors. Having alongside. lifeboat Robert Charles Brown launched obtained a VHP DF bearing of the casu- Extreme from her slipway at 0712 in a WSW Force alty the lifeboat spotted the helicopter at Coxswain Haw made two runs along- 8 wind and set a course for the yacht's 0834 and six minutes later Aeolian herself side, putting the lifeboat's starboard position, some five miles south of the was in sight. Once the lifeboat was at the shoulder against the portsideof the yacht, Needles. scene the helicopter, which was low on even though it was impossible to hold her Once clear of the shelter of Peveril fuel, returned to base. there for any length of time. On each of Point the lifeboat felt the full force of the The casualty's rudder had failed and the first two runs the survivors were not ready for transfer, but on the third and Swanage's Mersey class Robert Charles Brown, the lifeboat involved in a long service to a yacht off St subsequent runs a survivor was hauled Catherine's Point which led to Coxswain Chris Haw's Thanks on Vellum. aboard the lifeboat by the crew members stationed on deck. In the extreme conditions the two boats were pitching and rolling violently as they were carried by the breaking seas, and with crew members Marsh and By- ron on the foredeck the survivors were dragged aboard the lifeboat and escorted to the wheelhouse by crew member Fitzgerald. Aeolian was rigged as a yawl and her crew had been unable to secure the mizzen boom, which had been swinging wildly and causing concern to the coxswain throughout the rescue. While taking the final survivor aboard the boom swung across the lifeboat and struck crew mem- ber Marsh's crash helmet, slightly injur- ing his forehead. However, all four survivors were ..LIFEBOAT SERVICES.. ...LIFEBOAT SERVICES.. ..LIFEBOAT

CASUALTY HELD OFF WALL BY REFLECTED WAVES Yacht towed to safety from breaking seas on lee shore Ramsey's Mersey Ann and James Ritchie launches on a flag day. On the day of the Vellum A difficult service in darkness, gale force winds and heavy breaking service seas were breaking across the promenade seas just yards from a sea wall has earned Coxswain James Kinnon of on to the boathouse doors. Photo Roger Oram Ramsey lifeboat station the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on torn in the troughs between the seas - Vellum. which were breaking continuously over The remainder of the crew, second both lifeboat and casualty - in a position coxswain Raymond Stanfield, assistant where there should have been 16ft of mechanic Mark Kenyon, and crew mem- water at that state of the tide. bers Kevin Christian, Kim Holland and Lugo was so close to the promenade Robert Wade will receive Vellum Service wall that the coxswain decided the only Certificates. The actions of the driver of way to weigh her anchor and establish the launching tractor driver Juan Sable the tow without being driven ashore was and his assistant Mervyn Sims have to attach the line to the yacht's anchor earned them a letter of appreciation from cable. Then, by steaming ahead, the yacht the Director of the Institution. could be pulled clear and the anchor The events leading to the service be- weighed simultaneously without losing gan during the night of 29/30 August precious searoom. 1992 when a singlehanded yachtsman There had been no radio contact with was taking his 30ft yacht Lugo north from Lugo so all communication had to be by Fleetwood to Arran. In worsening loudhailer, despite the appalling condi- weather conditions he decided to shelter Ramsey tions. On the first attempt the lifeboat's in Ramsey on the Isle of Man, but as he port engine cut out, but restarted imme- approached the harbour in a ESE wind of West Division diately. Four further attempts were nec- between Force 7 and 8 the yacht's engine essary before the tow was secured and failed and she was swept down towards the lifeboat began to ease the yacht out to the promenade wall. were some 12ft to 15ft high, with a swell sea. About three-quarters of a mile to It was almost at the top of the highest estimated at about 9ft. Although the yacht seaward, and clear of the heavily break- tide of the year and the breaking seas was swept to within 15ft of the prom- ing surf, the loose end of the anchor cable enade at one point the seas reflected from was recovered and the lifeboat coxswain the wall held her off and this enabled the James Kinnon turned both lifeboat and skipper to rig a small outboard motor and tow through almost 180° to run in to the safely aboard the lifeboat by 0853 and harbour entrance. Coxswain Haw set a course for Yarmouth claw his way some 50 yards out to sea. The anchor was let go and the yacht lay Surf was breaking heavily across the via the Needles Channel. Throughout entrance to Ramsey harbour, but by in- the passage the seas were very rough, rolling violently, her mast almost touch- ing the water on each side, caught be- creasing his speed to 10 knots coxswain estimated at 25ft to 30ft high, and despite Kinnon was able to negotiate the tricky reducing speed the lifeboat was constantly tween the onshore breakers and the waves reflected from the promenade wall. entrance and bring lifeboat and casualty shipping water overall and occasionally into the shelter of the harbour. Lugo was falling off a particularly heavy sea and Liverpool MRCC were alerted by the local police and contacted the lifeboat secured alongside a coaster at 0200 and slamming hard. the lone yachtsman was treated in hospital The Mersey eventually reached Yar- station. As a result the Mersey class Ann and James Ritchie was launched at 0120, in for an injury to his hand before returning mouth at 1027, and landed the survivors. to his boat. The man who had been lost overboard very difficult conditions with waves hit- ting the front of the station itself as a Conditions were so bad that the life- earlier had been picked up by Yarmouth boat could not safely be recovered, so she lifeboat which was operating with failed result of the high tide and large breaking seas. Boat and tractor were battered by was left in the harbour until 1100 the steering gear and transferred to a heli- following day when she was rehoused. copter, but was dead on arrival at hospital. the waves during the launch, and the The abandoned Aeolian later sank . coxswain was later full of praise for the Swanage lifeboat left Yarmouth to re- tractor driver and his assistant who 'made turn to her station at 1138, into the teeth of a splendid job of the launch'. Thanks on. gale force winds of Force 8 to 9 and gusting The casualty was close to the station, to Force 10. She arrived at Swanage at and the Mersey reached the scene just Vellum. 1259 and was refuelled and ready for five minutes after launching. Circling the service again by 1340. yacht to establish just how much space was available the lifeboat touched bot- LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SER>) Dangers ashore Search for survivors Any lifeboat launch can be risky, and a carriage launch from an exposed beach is particularly so. Overcoming a problem and inHurricane Force 11 completing a service is part of the tradition of the lifeboat service - well illustrated by an incident at Dungeness which led to the and 40ft seas station receiving a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the RNLI. On 4 October 1992 the Dungeness life- A recent review of past services has led the search for the crew of Kartli who had taken boat Pride and Spirit was launching to the Chairman of the RNLI to write to the to the liferafts. She searched for two hours, aid of a German yacht in a ME Force 8 to 9 coxswain and crew of the Islay lifeboat in winds up to Hurricane Force 11 and seas when a particularly large wave swept un- saying that it was now evident that a serv- up to 40ft high, der the lifeboat and jammed her in her ice carried out on 18 December 1991 was monitoring radio carriage. The lifeboat was freed, the launch no ordinary one, and thanking them for a transmissions from aborted and the lifeboat recovered by trac- other vessels taking tor; but meanwhile the carriage was being service conducted in the best traditions of submerged by the rising tide and swept by the lifeboat service. part in the search heavy, breaking seas. Without thought for The station's lifeboat,He/muf Schroder of and from an RAF their own safety several people went into Dunlossit, proceeded in the early hours of Nimrod which was the water and managed to secure and then the morning after the Russian fish-factory acting as on scene retrieve the carriage in a very arduous and ship Kartli reported engine failure and fired commander. When hazardous operation. The lifeboat was re- flares some nine miles west of the Rhinns all survivors were . , turned to the carriage and then successfully of Islay lighthouse. The night was very accounted for the ISluy launched under an hour from the first at- tempt. dark and Gale force winds and very rough lifeboat was stood Scotland The yacht was taken in tow and four seas were encountered on passage, with down and finally . people landed safely in Rye. occasional hail storms and lightning. When returned to her sta- DlVlSlOll V / the lifeboat arrived she was tasked to tion at 1430

RACE TO REACH Three snatched from SURVIVORS STRANDED ON ROCK BEFORE TIDE wave-swept rock using AND STORM SWEEP boarding boat THEM AWAY The Director of the RNLI has written to down among the rocks within the reef Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate itself. Then, using the boarding boat, sec- coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on ond coxswain Martin Harwood was trans- Alderney the excellent teamwork shown during a ferred to the reef carrying lifejackets for the South West service by the station's Waveney Louis survivors. As he was negotiating a deep Marches! of Round Table in extremely diffi- gulley a large wave swept the reef and he Division cult conditions. was carried across it. On 12 August 1992 a 24ft yacht ran Watching from the lifeboat the cox- aground on the Outer Brinchetias rock, an swain was ready to cut the anchor warp isolated rock in the Alderney Race some and take her round to the leeward side of half-a-mile from the shore, in a southwest- the reef to retrieve Martin Harwood, but as erly wind which touched Storm Force 10 at the wave subsided the second coxswain • Alderney times. could be seen on the same rock as the Within ten minutes the yacht began to survivors and still clutching the lifejackets. break up and the three crew took to the The boarding boat was then veered and towards the very rock they had worked rocks. With a rising tide it would only be a down from the lifeboat, the helmsman so hard to retrieve the casualties from. matter of 30 minutes before the rocks were skilfully threading her through the rocks However the coxswain was at last able covered and the survivors swept away. and reefs into a position where she was to coax the lifeboat round, and out of the Louis Marches! of Round Table launched swept onto the survivors' rock. maze of reefs and rocks and head back to at 1426 for a short but difficult passage to Martin Harwood and the survivors the station. In the short trip back the con- the casualty's position. Taking a very tricky boarded quickly and she was pulled and ditions were such that she broached heavily inshore route to save time and gain some driven clear with the help of another large in the Brinchetia Passage, coming very shelter the lifeboat and the station's wave. By 1439 all were aboard the lifeboat close to the rocks on the seaward side. boarding boat reached the yacht in some and four minutes later the Waveney began By 1605 Louis Marchesi of Round Table five minutes - but only after being swept to weigh anchor. Just as the anchor cleared was safely back on her mooring and the by some very heavy breaking seas and the sea bed a squall swept through, catching survivors transferred ashore with the 'stopper-like' waves. the lifeboat beam on and driving her boarding boat - now working in condi- The Waveney anchored and veered downwind over submerged rock heads tions to which she was more accustomed! 8 LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERVI

HARBOUR IMPASSABLE AFTER RESCUE Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in se- vere gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum. Reporting on the service the Inspector of Lifeboats for the Scottish Eyemouth Division, Les Vipond, said: 'Coxswain Johnston showed leadership, courage and determination when the lifeboat launched in extreme Scotland Division weather conditions and minimum of depth.' The members of the lifeboat crew, sec- and visibility was only about a quarter of ond coxswain/mechanic James Tarvit, a mile in the numerous sleet squalls. acting assistant mechanic Dougal Colin, Thanks of the The lifeboat crew passed a heaving and crew members John Buchan, John line, and as the Waveney steamed slowly Purves and Robert Aitchison have all been Institution into wind and sea two crew members awarded Vellum Service Certificates. paid out a towline from the casualty's Eyemouth harbour had been closed to Inscribed on violently pitching and rolling foredeck shipping by bad weather for two days until it could be made fast aboard the when, at 1049 on 16 October 1992, Forth Vellum lifeboat. coastguard first told the lifeboat station Although the pilot boat was now safely that the Tyne Pilot launch Norman Forster the training bank, on the lifeboat's star- in tow another problem faced the cox- had broken down in a NNE Force 8 to 9 board side as she left the harbour, and swain. Re-entering Eyemouth was obvi- gale and needed immediate assistance. Coxswain John Johnston kept her just 2ft ously impossible in the conditions, so he Conditions at Eyemouth at the time from the wall to find sufficient depth. discussed with the Coastguard the could hardly have been worse. There was Creeping gently out of the Canyon he chances of seeking refuge in nearby less than an hour before low water at was able to increase speed a little and Torness Harbour. However entry would spring tides, giving only 4ft of water in time his arrival at the pier head with the be very difficult with an unpowered boat the entrance channel, and 40 knots of passage of the last of a regular pattern of in tow so Coxswain Johnston accepted wind and the river Eye in full spate were larger seas. that he would have to tow the casualty combining to create a 3ft sea in the lower The Waveney now began to feel the further north and west, into the shelter of reaches of the infamous 'Canyon', the effect of the swell and she touched the the Firth of Forth. narrow harbour entrance. sand a couple of times before breaking It was not until 1505 that lifeboat and However the coxswain believed that free of the harbour, and then took a tow reached the nearest safe haven, in- the lifeboat could get to sea provided no number of large seas aboard as she in- side the Firth at Port Seaton. There the time was lost, and so at 1106 the 44ft creased speed to meet the swell and the casualty was secured, and after a little Waveney class Eric Seal (Civil Service No full force of the wind, heading to the well-earned rest the crew took Eric Seal 36) left her berth and headed seaward. north along the leading marks indicating back to sea again at 1600, heading for her The deepest water lay right alongside the deepest water. home station. Although some heavy seas were en- An earlier photograph of Eric Seal in Eyemouth illustrates the difficult and The coxswain narrow entrance to the port. eased the lifeboat countered the passage was uneventful - • • i seaward until he until the deputylaunching authority at was able to alter Eyemouth reported that the harbour en- course towards trance was still impassable due to the the casualty wind and sea conditions. which she reached The Waveney had no choice but to at approximately pass her home port and seek refuge in 1138, some 30 Burnmouth, further to the south and minutes after sheltered from the NNE wind. launching. The At 1845 Coxswain Johnstone made a 50ft vessel was ly- skilled entry and the lifeboat was made ing across the 20ft fast for the night. The following morning, seas and swell in a in moderating conditions, the lifeboat left NNE wind of Burnmouth at 0745 and arrived home at around 40 knots 0830. LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERVICES...LIFEBOAT SERN

YACHT SINKS UNDER TOW AFTER PUMP BLOCKS Six saved from sinking German yacht A service by the Dover lifeboat, the Thames class Rotary Service, on 25 August 1992 has earned her coxswain, Anthony Hawkins, and his crew a letter of appreciation from Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI's chief of operations. Dover The wind was south-west Force 6 to 7 crew. The helicopter had been unable to Dover and the sea in the Channel rough when the take them off becauseCtwstoizt' 's mast and South East Division coastguard first alerted the station that the rigging prevented a close approach and a 39ft German yacht Constanze was in diffi- safety boat launched by Stena Clwllenger, culties some 10 miles away to the ENE. one of the ferries at the scene, had fouled Rotary Service launched at 1555, just over its propeller. The next task was to tow the disabled 10 minutes after the first alert, and was at The first priority was to put a pump safety boat back to her parent ferry and, the scene 40 minutes later. The casualty aboard the casualty and with Stena Chal- with this accomplished, the lifeboat re- was taking water and although a helicop- lenger providing a lee from the near-gale turned to the casualty to pass a towline. ter, fourcross-Channel ferries and a hover- southwesterly wind Rotnn/ Service was able As she began to take the sinking vessel craft had responded to her distress signal to transfer a pump and two crew men to to safety the pump choked with debris the lifeboat was needed to take off the the yacht and to take off the six crew. and it became obvious that the flow of water could not be stemmed. The 39ft Constanze sinking by the bow, Sinking broaches heavily Coxswain Hawkins therefore recovered under tow in a Force 6 to 7 wind. Despite the pump and the two lifeboat crew from various attempts the the yacht and continued towards Dover crew of the Dover with the yacht, now sinking by the bow, lifeboat could not prevent her sinking still in tow. With the increased weight on just two miles away the line the tow parted, and when it was from Dover. The crew reconnected it was made fast to the stern in of six German yachtsmen was taken an attempt to slow the rate at which the off before the tow casualty was sinking. began and two Slowly the lifeboat continued towards lifeboatmen and a pump had battled to Dover, but when a mere two miles from save her. the port the yacht finally sank. (Photo Dover Rotanj Service returned to station with lifeboat crew) the six survivors and was alongside by 1940. In his letter of appreciation Commo- dore Cooper remarked:'... after rescuing the six persons the lifeboat crew must have been disappointed when, despite all their efforts, Constanze could not be saved.'

them and they were taken off again just before she Save Our Pot Plants foundered. One reported that there were several pot Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called plants in the cockpit, adding that 'it was a good thing to another sinking incident in the South East Division, the incident hadn't happened in the summer, when the this time on Boxing Day 1992. add i tional top hamper of the foliage would ha ve had an The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three adverse effect on stability'! people aboard (who had been likened to new age The pot plants prepare to meet their doom and the lifeboat travellers of the sea) had left Essex bound across the crew prepare to abandon ship as Norman begins to founder Thames Estuary forSandwich in Kent. She had already been reported as having grounded on two separate ocassions in the previous five days and had no radio Margate aboard. When she began to take water she was fortunate in being spotted by a fishing vessel, which informed the Margate coastguards, who scrambled a helicopter and asked for the lifeboat to be launched. South East The helicopter took off the three crew and when the lifeboat arrived two crew members were put aboard to Division attempt a tow. However the vessel began to sink under Work

for the RNLI

The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater than meets the eye, for these are boats which combine the traditional attributes of lifeboats with performance obtained from technology close to the leading edge of design and construction. Such state-of-the-art lifeboats cannot be bought off-the-shelf, and the specification, in-house design, construction and trials which result in a new lifeboat class takes several years of intense effort by the RNLI's Technical and Operations departments.

Fast Response As a result the machinery was set in motion to have two new The Trent and Severn classes arise from a proven and demon- classes ready for the early '90s. By 1989 the main requirements strated need which can be traced back to the early 1960s, when the had been formalised - calling for a service speed of 25 knotf first high speed inflatable inshore lifeboats showed the value of propeller protection and the ability to take the ground without rapid response. damage, which neither existing class offered. Ease of mainte- The first fast all-weather lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney, followed nance, a range of 250 miles (plus 10% reserve), self-righting ability in the mid-1960s, taking speeds up to 15 knots from the 8 or 9 knots and numerous detail requirements were part of a brief which of traditional lifeboats. The Arun (in 1971) and the Thames (in included safe operation in winds of 60 knots and seas up to 15m 1973) joined the fleet as larger fast lifeboats for stations where the high. To complicate matters further there were length and beam lifeboat lay afloat, and the Tyne (in 1982) provided a fast lifeboat constraints to maximise the use of existing mooring facilities. for slipway-launch stations. By 1983 the benefits of fast lifeboats Preliminary work included uprating the engines of an Arun, was so proven that the Institution set itself the target of replacing giving a maximum speed of around 23 knots. Although it was all traditional lifeboats with new, fast designs by the end of 1993. known that the increased fuel consumption and reduced range The last piece in that jigsaw was a carriage-launch fast would not be acceptable, and that the Arun did not provide lifeboat, and after considerable development the Mersey filled 'propeller protection or have the structural strength for these that need in 1988. By the end of 1993 the target will have been met speeds the possibility of a 25-knot lifeboat was demonstrated. and all 210 stations will have a boat capable of at least 15 knots, The time needed to design and develop a lifeboat is consider- with the majority in the 17-18 knot region. able, so with two classes of differing size to be replaced, it was decided to use a geometrically similar hull (a GEOSIM) for the Moving Forward two classes of lifeboat, one 17m overall the other 14m but each However 'afloat' lifeboats are now normally replaced after 20 developed from the same basic form. years service, so the early Waveneys and Aruns are due for replacement in the early '90s. Although both classes have been The Concept highly successful more than two decades of progress led the RNLI The two principal objectives of extra speed and propeller protec- to believe that an even better all-round design of afloat lifeboat tion are difficult to combine and required serious consideration could be produced to replace them when the time came. during the early development. The relationship between speed

11 but the tests showed it to be straight and strong with no 'cross-over' Work within the tunnel or around the continued side keels - either of which could

Tank testing in progress. The hard- have created a problem. chine hull (right) running at a The bow-up attitude of the displacement near to that of the models was too large to begin with final boat, and (below) a stern view of the round-bilge model at speed and although the optimum trim for forward vision was not the opti- mum for resistance a suitable com- * promise was achieved by the addition of 'wedges' at the aft end of the tunnels. The difference between the performance of the two model hull forms was slight, so the only way to decide which hull to adopt would be to carry out sea-keeping tests in open water. This was achieved in a novel way which avoided the expense of two prototypes. The models used for the tank tests were fitted with a small petrol engine, radio control equipment and instru- ments to measure roll, pitch, yaw, acceleration and helm re- sponse. In March 1989 both models were tested in conditions equivalent to winds of up to Force 7, with significant results. and length is a critical aspect of hull design, and the new designs Although both models had impressive sea-keeping ability the lay at the upper performance limit of a round bilge hull form and hard chine hull proved to have better characteristics in the rough- at the lower limit of a hard chine form. est conditions, notably in following sea conditions where the Two methods of protecting the propellers were considered - helm response was significantly better. putting the props in ducts, and recessing them within deep The sea-keeping trials confirmed the decision to continue runnels with side keels. Ducted propellers were eventually re- development of the hard chine hull, and more tests were carried jected because of the amount of drag at the speeds being considered out on the self-righting capability of each model, the sea-keeping and concern that damage could result if the boat took the ground. when at rest in regular and irregular waves and manoeuvrability The Mersey already incorporated deep tunnels in the hull, and in calm water. if this was combined with side keels similar to the Tyne there The results confirmed the earlier findings, and later in 1989 the would be adequate propeller protection for the boat to take the decision was taken to proceed with the hard chine hull for both ground safely. Weight and centre of gravity calculations indi- new classes. cated that boats of this type could be constructed in either aluminium or fibre-reinforced composite, but that to keep within Construction the weight limits the choice of engine and transmission was Early weight estimates indicated that the new boats could be built limited. in either aluminium or fibre reinforced composite (FRC). How- ever, later more definitive estimates showed that to obtain the Model testing required performance the weight constraints were extremely The tunnels and side keels would add to the hull resistance, so tight. As construction in FRC enables substantial weight to be model tests were carried out to establish the power required. Two saved without loss of strength this material was chosen. models were tested for comparison - a hard chine hull developed The design of the laminate for the composite is complex, taking by the RNLI and a round bilge hull based on the same parameters. into account not only the overall strength but also the direction of The resistance and power requirement for the two hull forms the loads. Pressures exerted on lifeboat hulls are high, and expe- were comparable but, as expected, the resistance of the round rience of boats in service was used to derive the design pressures bilge hull was less at lower speeds and the hard chine hull was required. better at higher speeds. The self-righting ability of a lifeboat relies largely on a water- The water flow through the tunnels was of particular concern, tight deckhouse, which must remain intact, so as the boats were to be designed to withstand a 'pitchpole' (stern-over-bow cap- size) in addition to a normal cap- size the deck and deckhouse structure had to be designed with this in mind. It was decided in the first in- stance that the larger boat would have a hand-laminated single-skin bottom panel (supported by con- tinuous longitudinals) with vacuum-bagged sandwich side panels supported by transverse bulkheads and web frames. Sand- wich laminates would be used for deck, superstructure and bulk- heads. Polyester or modified poly-

(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for free- running seakeeping trials. (Inset) Only the human figure gives scale to the models. Self-righting trials on the prototype 14m FAB 4, now the Trent class, with the side keels protecting the propellers clearly visible. The watertight integrity of the superstructure is vital to self-righting and the design must take into account the loads involved in side-to-side and stern- over-bow capsizes. ester and urethane acrylate type laminating resins were used. For the smaller boat the thick sandwich monocoque-type struc- ture using epoxy pre-impregnated reinforcement, similar to that of the Mersey, was best suited to the lim- ited space and subdivision required for the boat. Throughout the development various combinations of resins and reinforcements were examined to reduce weight and maintain strength. Meeting the weight and centre of gravity limits for the boats meant very close monitoring during rooms further forward and in-line shafts - have sometimes construction andthiswasextendedto the fitting out stages, where needed partial dismantling of the wheelhouse to remove an the boats were positioned on load cells so that they could be engine. weighed at regular intervals. A full-scale mock-up of the wheelhouse and accommodation For a lifeboat to survive and retain her self-righting capability allowed interested parties to assess the arrangements, particu- any water which enters a damaged hull must be contained by larly the medical aspects and survivor handling. subdivision of the hull, and in the larger Severn this is achieved Survivors are best placed in a position of least motion, and the by using a double bottom in all spaces except the engineroom, two Severn achieves this with seating forward of the engine and fuel longitudinal bulkheads and transverse bulkheads. The smaller tank space, and in the after part of the deckhouse. Space limita- Trent relies on the form of construction (FRC sandwich) for tions in the Trent prevent this ideal location but a suitable com- double-bottom protection and subdivision. promise has been found. The deckhouse also has six crew seats and direct access to the Machinery and layout below deck spaces, which contain the galley and toilet facilities. The layout of both classes takes account of the need for easy Stretchers can be supported by block and tackle from a deckhead maintenance of the machinery and also the provision of adequate runway, allowing them to be moved horizontally and to be space for seated survivors. positioned at any angle - a facility requested by the Institution's The engine room is aft, with the two Caterpillar diesel engines Medical and Survival Committee. of the Severn (1,050bhp each) driving the propellers through a 'U' The deck sheer line of both boats was dropped in a similar way drive gearbox. In the Trent, however, space limitations led to a to the Arun to reduce the freeboard amidships so that survivors novel approach in which one of the twin MAN diesel engines can be more easily brought aboard. A 'well deck' is provided in (808bhp each) is turned round, driving the propeller in a conven- the Severn in which a crew member can stand to lean over the side tional manner, while the other works through a 'U' drive. without the fear of falling overboard. As a result the engines can be removed through large hatches As with the Arun the Severn is provided with a Y class in the aft deck, whereas previous RNLI lifeboats - with engine inflatable, launched and recovered by a lightweight aluminium

Construction Materials... Wood construction is often thought to be synonymous with theRNLI, but in fact the last wooden lifeboat entered service in 1982 and will be replaced by her FRC successor later this year. Steel has been used successfully for hull construction for almost thirty years but where the weight of steel cannot be tolerated aluminium, introduced in 1988 for ten Merseys, has been used successfully. The RNLI ordered its first glass reinforced plastic (GRP) lifeboat, a Nelson 40, in 1968 principally for material evaluation. The construction was very conventional for the time, using orthothphalic resins reinforced with woven ravings and chopped strand mat. In 1971 the Arun class lifeboat was developed, specifically for construction in composite materials, and from wooden prototypes the world's first purpose-built GRP offshore lifeboat evolved. The first boats used a similar construction to the Nelson 40, but improved resins and reinforcements were incorporated as they became available. The need to improve speed, durability and survivability has led to the increasing choice of FRC as a construction material, and in the mid '80s the increasing weight of lifeboats, as a result of the need for increased power and additional equipment, led to a re-evaluation of construction materials. Panels of timber, steel, aluminium alloy, GRP and FRC of equivalent strength and representative of actual boat structures were made up and tested by dropping a 12kg projectile on them from a height of 9m. The wood panels failed totally and the conventional GRP panels showed some delamination and some failures. However, the FRC, steel and aluminium panels performed satisfactorily. With evidence that an FRC boat could be built to withstand the same pressures but at a lower weight than steel or aluminium a prototype Mersey was built from FRC in 1987. She satisfied all requirements for impact resistance, abrasion resistance and shock loading in extensive trials designed to simulate some 20 years of life for an average beach-launched lifeboat. In just over one week the prototype was driven on and off a beach nearly 250 times and dragged almost a mile over a shingle, sand and pebble surface. After these demanding trials she was tested for shock loading by being dropped 3.5m into the water from a crane - with no adverse effects. As a result the majority of the production Merseys, 27 boats, was ordered in FRC and further development has enabled the material to meet the needs for even more performance in the replacement classes of 'afloat' lifeboats.

13 (Left) The final product, the first Severn - in prototype form at least. Four hectic years have passed from the first Operational Requirements, through concept, design, testing, modification, development and operational trials . Now, there are only the modifications for the production boats to finalise, the detailed building drawings to up-date and modify, the production to oversee, the.... The first batches of Trents and Severns have already been ordered, but it will be mid 1994 before the first production boats complete their builders and acceptance trials and enter service as operational lifeboats.

Principal Dimensions Severn Length overall 17.0m (55ft 9in) Beam 5.5m (18ft Oin) Draught 1.68m (5ft 6in) Displacement 37.5 tonnes (36.9 tons) Speed 25 knots Engines Two Caterpillar 3412 TA diesels 1,050bhp each at 2,150rpm Fuel capacity 5,500 litres (1,200gal) approx Trent Length overall 14.0m (45ft 11 in) Beam 4.53m (14ft 10in) framework and winch. Draught 1.295m (4ft Sin) The electromagnetic interference and earthing problems asso- Displacement 25.5 tonnes (25.1 tons) ciated with composite structures have been largely overcome by Speed 25 knots spraying the inside of the wheelhouse with zinc and fitting large Engines Two MAN D2840LXE diesels 808bhp each at 2,300rpm earth plates recessed into the keel. Fuel capacity 4,100 litres (900 gal) approx Proof of the pudding Full-scale trials are carried out on all RNLI prototypes, normally After completion of the technical trials, and any modifications, in four stages: first the builder's trials, then technical trials fol- the operational staff start to evaluate the boat as a working lowed by operational trials and, finally, evaluation at various lifeboat. In addition to normal day-to-day seakeeping and pas- stations around the coast. sage experience these trials include such things as mooring, Builder's trials are carried out on all RNLI lifeboats, and anchoring, Y boat operation, towing, helicopter operation, man particularly prototype craft. They check the functioning of all the overboard recovery, night use, fire-fighting and damage control, equipment and systems, last about ten weeks and include weigh- pilotage and casualty handling. ing, inclining trials, fuel calibration, self-righting trials, four- and The prototypes also undertake a circumnavigation of the six-hour machinery trials, equipment trial, speed and fuel con- British Isles to enable as many people as possible from stations sumption trial. around the coast to evaluate and comment on them. Feedback is After a prototype boat has been handed over by the builder, obtained from crews and operational staff and used to help with technical trials begin to confirm that the design satisfies the modifications and improvements for later production boats. requirements. Typically these include speed and trim, turning circles, manoeuvrability, crash stops, instrumented sea-keeping, Modular Fit-out noise and vibration levels, bollard pull, shaft revolution per Lifeboats are built by independent boatyards around the country minute and torque measurement. and, until recently, were constructed in the conventional way, Most are carried out in calm water, but the sea-keeping trials with the machinery, operational and accommodation spaces are held in varying sea conditions and are of particular interest. fitted out after the basic structure had been completed. The boat is fully instrumented to measure vertical acceleration The increasing complexity of modern lifeboats means that the forward, vertical acceleration amidships, roll angle, pitch angle, fitting out is a very complicated and labour-intensive operation, yaw rate, rudder angle and wave elevation. The responses are which is particularly acute in the smaller boats where access to the recorded for various sea conditions, speeds and different head- various compartments is limited. When the Mersey was being ings and, as these trials have already been carried out on other planned the structure was designed to be built in modules, so that classes of lifeboat it is possible to compare the sea-keeping capa- large sections of the structure could be fitted out before being bility and seakindliness of the boat. The data is also used to help installed in the main structure. This system has proved so success- predict the cumulative effect of the boat's motion on the operating ful that four months was saved in the production of a Mersey. The efficiency of the crew. prototypes of the Severn and Trent classes were, of necessity, fitted out in the traditional manner, but production The Cn/Stdl Bull... Although a design of modern, fast lifeboat is now available for all situations the RNLI is boats will take full ad van- always looking to the future and anticipating future trends and developments. At the moment it is felt unlikely that the tage of the modular sys- speed of all-weather lifeboats will exceed the 25 knots of the latest designs, although the smaller inshore lifeboats will probably be capable of around 40 knots within the next few years. tem. The trend towards lighter diesel engine installations for a given power and reliability will undoubtedly continue, and the overall reliability and suitability of this type of power source is unlikely to be challenged in the foreseeable future. 'Fast Work' is based on the paper The design and development of Propulsion systems, however, could well change, with water-jet drives likely to be a serious consideration by the year modem lifeboats' presented to the 2000. Considerable evaluation of the operational suitability of jet-drive would have to be undertaken, but the advantages Institution of Mechanical Engineers for a lifeboat would be considerable. The elimination of conventional propellers, rudders, their protective appendages and on 27 January 1993. The authors of compromise design features would reduce resistance and therefore power requirements as well as improving performance the paper were F. D. Hudson CE.O FRINA, MIMARE (Chief Technical Officer, in following seas. RNLI), I. A. HickS BSc, CE«G, MIM.c-E Clearly the next few years will see many further changes in requirements and advances in technology, not least in the (Technical Manager, RNLI) and refinement of the composite materials which have already contributed to the success of the latest generation of lifeboats. R. M. Cripps BSC, CENG, MRiNA (Design Manager, RNLI)

14 PAST...AND..PRESENT

30 years ago Today's lifeboatmen

From THE LIFEBOAT of Kieran Cotter has been coxswain of Baltimore March 1963 lifeboat since 1989, hav- The disaster at Seaham Harbour in which 5 members ing first joined the crew of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken in 1975. off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, He was awarded a shocked and distressed the nation. Bronze Medal in 1991 in The life-boat capsized at what is so often the most recognition of his deter- dangerous moment, when she was about to enter the mination, skill and fine harbour. Here she was hit by successive waves from seamanship when the heavy seas when broadside to the wind and tide. The lifeboat The Good Shep- confused broken water was aggravated by the backwash herd, on temporary duty and undertow from the breakwaters. There can be no at Baltimore, rescued 15 doubt whatever that the decision to launch the life-boat people and saved the was a correct one. She did indeed succeed in reaching Spanish fishing vessel the fishing vessel and take off 5 people; nor, as the Japonica. The casualty verdict at the Coroner's inquest emphatically stated, had suffered engine can any blame be attached to the coxswain and crew. failure 20 miles west of A most thorough investigation was carried out by the Fastnet Rock in Storm Force winds on the night of 30/31 the Institution's officials, from which emerged clearly October 1991 and was towed to Bantry Bay. that both the hull and machinery of the life-boat were On the return passage the lifeboat put into Castletownbere in first class condition. Even after the severe pounding to land an injured crew member and to change a blocked fuel she received after the capsize the life-boat was pro- filter. While waiting for a replacement the lifeboat received nounced seaworthy, and it is significant that twelve information that the yacht Atlantic Adventure was in diffi- days after the capsize the engines, when tested at the culties south off the Fastnet Rock and later rendezvoused depot at Boreham Wood, started almost at once. In- with the yacht and towed her back to Baltimore. The lifeboat deed such is the condition of the boat that she is being was at sea for a period of 26 hours. put into service in the reserve fleet. The Maud Smith Award for the bravest act of life-saving Because life-boats are known to be unsinkable in 1991 was also made to Kieran Cotter for this service. confusion tends to arise in the minds of many people when a life-boat disaster occurs, for there is a tendency to assume that "unsinkable" and "uncapsizeable" are synonymous. The practical fact is that they are very far from being the same. Facts and Figures How to construct a boat in such a way that she will Provisional statistics as at 8 February 1993 show that not sink even if she is repeatedly holed is something during 1992: which has been known and put into practice for many The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,439 times years; no man has yet designed a boat which can be of (an average of more than 14 launches a day) practical use as a life-boat and will yet be free from the 1,371 lives have been saved (an average of more dangers of capsizing in all conditions of wind and tide. than 3 each day) The improvement of the design and construction of Nearly 6% per cent of all services carried out by life-boats is a continuous process. New types of life- lifeboats were in winds of Force 8 and above boat are under construction and new prototypes Nearly 59 per cent of all services were to pleasure planned, details of which will be given in the next craft (sail, power and manual pleasure craft) number of this journal, but one inescapable fact re- There are 280 lifeboats on station, with a further mains; danger can never be wholly eliminated. 109 in the relief fleet. The task confronting those who design life-boats To 31 December 1992, 123,900 lives have been remains what it has always been, that of providing the saved since the RNLI was founded in 1824. most seaworthy and effective craft which skill and experience, money and materials can provide. Costs The cost of running the RNLI in 1992 was £48m. Although the Seaham Harbour disaster occurred The approximate current cost of building a lifeboat is: more than 30 years ago (on 17 November 1962) the 16ft D class inflatable - £10,500 sentiments expressed in the final paragraph are as true 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatable - £61,000 today as then. The two new classes of lifeboat reviewed 12m Mersey - £680,000 elsewhere in this issue of the Journal follow the same Fast Afloat Boat 4 - £1,000,000* principles. Fast Afloat Boat 3 - £1,350,000* "Estimates based on prototypes, production costs may differ 15 Relief Fleet - Atlantic 21 Ernest Armstrong Fleetwood-o class Lady Payne (left), City of Chester founder member of the Harrogate ladies guild Wintry weather did not deter guests and donor of the new arriving at Fleetwood for the handing Atlantic 21 at the over ceremony and service of dedication ceremony in which she named the lifeboat after for the station's new D class inflatable her late father. lifeboat City of Chester on 5 December With her are (from 1992. left to right) Alan Tate (superintendent, Mr Frank Hardman, chairman of inshore lifeboat Fleetwood station branch, welcomed centrejthe Reverend everyone who was present, particularly Stuart Cleaver and Anthony Oliver (deputy the members of Chester branch who had head of fundraising and worked so hard to raise the funds to marketing). provide the boat. Mr Terry Byrne, chairman of Chester branch handed over the lifeboat to A new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat which various committees and was closely in- Donald Redford CBE, DL, vice president will serve in the relief fleet, was named volved with the lifeboat station at East- of the RNLI who accepted it on behalf of and dedicated at the Institution's Inshore bourne, the town to which he retired in the Institution. The station honorary Lifeboat Centre, East Cowes on 25 No- 1921. secretary, Captain Peter Woodworth vember 1992. Alan Tate, superintendent of the in- then accepted the lifeboat into the safe- The cost of the lifeboat had been met shore lifeboat centre, opened proceed- keeping of the station. from a donation by Lady Payne of Har- ings by welcoming guests. Lady Payne The service of dedication which fol- rogate in memory of her father, Ernest handed the lifeboat over to Anthony lowed was conducted by Canon A. Armstrong. Oliver, deputy head of fundraising and Cochrane, assisted by Reverend J. Cope Lady Payne is a founder member of marketing, who accepted it for use in the and Reverend I. Sumner. the Harrogate ladies' guild and is cur- relief fleet. A short service of dedication The ceremony was concluded with rently vice president. Her father, after then followed, conducted by the Rever- the presentation of a commemorative whom the lifeboat is named was a vice end Stuart Cleaver, priest-in-charge, plaque by John Butter, formerly High president of the RNLI and a member of Whippingham and East Cowes. At the Sheriff of Chester and Patron of the City its committee of management from 1929 close of the service Lady Payne named of Chester lifeboat appeal, to Fleetwood until his death in 1952. He served on the lifeboat Ernest Armstrong. lifeboat station. Relief Fleet- D class Jill Gatti and Y boat

A D class inflatable lifeboat, funded by Sunsail, in particular those who put their Duckworth, executive director of Better Better Bridge in Britain, and an inflat- vessels aground! (Y boats are carried on Bridge in Britain handed over the life- able Y boat funded by Sunsail were Arun and Severn class lifeboats and are boats to Anthony Oliver, deputy head of dedicated together at the Institution's launched from the parent vessel to reach fundraising and marketing and the Poole depot on 19 November 1992. a casualty close to rocks and shallow service of dedication was conducted by The D class which has been funded waters). the Reverend Stanley Holbrooke-Jones, through the Charity Challenge Cup or- Miss Vanessa Lowe, marketing ex- Rector of Poole. At the close of the service ganised by Better Bridge in Britain was ecutive of Sunsail and Mrs Christine Mrs Gatti named the D class /;'// Gatti. named by, and after, Jill Gatti who had founded the charity challenge in 1958. After her retirement in 1989 Better Bridge in Britain took over the organisation of the cup and has continued to support national charities. Sunsail, based in Portsmouth, offers worldwide sailing holidays and the Y boat has been funded from donations received from holidaymakers with Jill Gatti (centre) founder of the bridge Charity Challenge Cup with Christine Duckworth of Better Bridge in Britain (right) and Vanessa Lowe, marketing executive of Sunsail, at the joint handing over and dedication ceremony. With them are Richard Perks (extreme left), staff officer general duties, Anthony Oliver (back), deputy head of fundraising and marketing and the Reverend Stanley Holbrooke-Jones.

16 Lifeboatmen brought to book. A drier future... I am currently researching a book on suitable lifeboatmen as well as those I wish to thank the many readers who men whose lives have been closely whose main occupation has been reponded to my 'Any old Oilies' appeal connected with the coasts of the British concerned with the coast, including in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Isles. This work will be in a similar fishing. Candidates may be working or Many people posted or delivered by vein to my recently published Tales of retired, but have had long experience, hand (some of them who did not give the Old Countrymen' and Tales of the and the older the better because the their names and addresses) oilies for Old Gamekeepers' and trace the stories book is chiefly concerned with times use by schoolchildren doing educa- of about a dozen characters who have past. tional projects on the Cutty Sark at been in occupations as diverse as If you feel that you have a yarn or Greenwich. lighthouse keeper, fisherman, coast- two to tell or would like to nominate This has meant considerable savings guard, reserve warden, shell fisherman, someone else, please write to me at the on our limited resources. wildfowling guide and, of course, address below as soon as possible. I M.W. Joy, lifeboatman. In connection with this I hope to include one or two recipients of Bromley, Kent. would welcome readers' suggestions RNLI medals and to discover the oldest for suitable subjects. surviving lifeboatman. Marching on Ideally, I am looking for men whose I am also looking for interesting old May I please take a little space in your living has depended on the coast for all photographs to illustrate the book. All pages to thank all who responded to or most of their lives, which would be assistance will be duly acknowledged. my appeal for information about the documented in detail in the book, at the Brian P. Martin, Padstow Lifeboat March (Your Letters same time giving plenty of anecdotes. I 4 Upper Birtley, Brook, Goldalming, THE LIFEBOAT Winter 1992/3). I have had would be very pleased to hear from Surrey GU8 5LB (Tel. 0428 682567) well over 50 replies, including several tapes, and think I must now have the most comprehensive list of all record- Memories of the Eastbourne Museum ings of this tune ever made! I wonder if any reader can help me? I am seeking more information on the I also have from one person a building which houses the RNLI Lifeboat Museum situated on the seafront at mention of a Scottish pipes recording of Eastbourne, near the Wish Tower. a tune called The Two Maroons'. The The building's official title is The William Terriss Memorial Life-boat House' title itself sounds intriguing and as I am and I am currently researching the life and work of William Terriss, the popular myself a great lover of the pipes, more Victorian actor to whom the building is a memorial. information would be welcome. But I would love to hear from anyone who may have come across anything relating my postman says..! Seriously, may I thank all who have to this building, now nearly 100 years written, or in several cases sent tapes. I old, among their family possessions. Prizewinner have tried to respond to all but if there The foundation stone was laid on are any I have missed may I please beg I was most interested in the article in the Saturday 16 July 1898 by the Duchess of Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the their forgiveness. Over a month after Devonshire at a huge ceremony. Those heading The Duke of Northumberland's the Winter journal appeared I am still Prize Essay Competititon'. present included the 13-man crew of getting replies. I may well be able to In 1923 I was one of the lucky winners the Eastbourne lifeboat William and give our Records Club an entire in the East Midlands and I was presented Mary, 13 members of the Eastbourne evening of different recordings of one with a National Savings Certificate Fire Brigade, 100 Eastbourne College rune! My sincere thanks to all who together with a book by Sir John Cameron cadets, a choir of 60 children from local have written to me. Lamb entitled The Lifeboat and its Work' schools, the band of the Sussex Royal - a fascinating and detailed story of the Philip Trelf all, Artillery Militia and many local lifeboats of the day with numerous 10 Clifford Terrace, dignitaries. illustrations. Wellington, Perhaps your great (great) grandfa- My interest in the Institution was Somerset TA21 8PQ further heightened by the fact that my ther was one of those present. Photo- wife and I spent many happy holidays graphs were taken both for press (including our honeymoon) at Cromer in publication and for sale to the public - the days when the coxswain there was the even 'animated photographs' of the Your letters on subjects legendary Henry Blogg, who was one of event were shown a week later at the connected with any aspect of the attractions for visitors as his exploits were nationally publicised at that time. Town Hall. the lifeboat service Although it is only of latter years that I In 1937 (March 22) the building was are welcomed. have become a Shoreline member, I have officially opened as a lifeboat museum Write to: - the first of its kind. Does anyone have always had a life-long admiration for the The Editor, THE LIFEBOAT, RNLI, RNLI and the bravery displayed by its any memories of this event? gallant crews. A. Hill, West Quay Road, Poole, Ernest J. Cox, 24 Firle Road, Eastbourne, Dorset BH151 HZ Nottingham. East Sussex BN22 8DU

17 oor DP Governors Shoreline Storm Force

1992 and all that We intend to implement small, regu- And into 1993... Thanks to your generous support, and lar increases in future years, which will The long awaited documentary televi- that of all our other members, 1992 proved better enable us to keep up with rising sion series on the RNLI now looks set to the most successful year yet for the RNLI costs and, we hope, be more helpful to be shown on ITV in six, 30 minute epi- membership scheme. you. sodes - at 7.00pm on Wednesdays start- More than £3m was raised from your If you have already renewed your ing on 28 April. Shoreline and Governor subscriptions, membership at the new rates, or have The series features the Salcombe life- your covenants and additional donations recently joined, your increased contribu- boat crew and was filmed over the past throughout the year. tion is greatly appreciated. With some year and a half. Cameras were aboard the At the end of 1991 the number of mem- 5,000 lifeboat launches in 1992 - our high- lifeboat for a medal-winning service, at bers stood at some 168,000 Shoreline and est ever total in a year - we need your the AGM and presentation of awards last Joint Shoreline members, with 33,000 continued membership more than ever year, and followed the coxswain and crew Annual and Life Governors - a grand before. in the course of their day-to-day work. total of 201,000 members. The series looks set to provide the RNLI However, some of these were old Covenants and with its biggest splash of publicity in memberships and research showed that Direct Debits 1993, and for many a year. the actual number of current, fully paid- Have you covenanted your subscription? We are sure you will want not to miss up memberships was only 176,000. But We have been working hard to get the this series and so we hope to write to you by the end of 1992, the number of paid-up message across to all members that they in April with confirmation of the dates memberships had bounced back up to really should covenant their membership and times. Look out for this letter and 205,000 - an increase in real terms of 29,000 subscription. By completing a couple of have your remote control or VCR to hand! during the year! very simple forms you can increase the The number of Storm Force members value of your subscription by one third - TV Commercial stands at a very respectable 15,000, and at no cost to yourself. By the time this journal reaches you, the we hope these young people will go on to If you pay UK tax on your income, RNLI will have tried a fundraising televi- become ardent supporters of the RNLI in whether it be salary, savings or pension, sion commercial for the first time. Fea- their adult years. the RNLI can benefit if you sign a cov- tured on Channel 4, the commercial was enant because it can claim back the tax produced by our advertising agency Subscription increase you have already paid on your subscrip- WWAV in conjunction with Space City In September last year the membership tion. The good news is that some 56,000 Productions. subscription rates were increased for the members have now signed a covenant, John Nettles, of Bergerac fame, re- first time since 1986. Since that time in- but this still leaves 149,000 members who corded the commentary and Simon Rat- flation had galloped away at nearly 50% have not. Please make sure that you have tle and the London Philharmonic Orches- and an increase was obviously needed to covenanted your membership, and tra rearranged and provided the music. maintain the real value of members' con- spread the word! It really is 'free money' Our thanks to them for being so profes- tributions. for the RNLI. sional and helpful. We are also grateful to At the moment 82,000 Volvo Cars UK for their support with the members pay their sub- first phase of the campaign. Plastic envelopes for scription by direct debit Thanks to those involved, we have THE LIFEBOAT which, again, is so valu- been able to keep costs to an absolute able to the RNLI. Paying minimum and it is very much hoped that At the end of last year we tried using plastic envelopes by direct debit saves a this exciting venture will prove a worthy for distributing the journal to members and other sup- great deal of administra- new fundraising source for the RNLI. porters. As well as presenting the journal in a fresher tion expense, so we heart- Finally, the last word should go to the way, the plastic envelopes are only one-third of the ily encourage you to crew of the Mumbles lifeboat and to price of traditional paper envelopes and with over a complete a direct debit Oliver, the fourteen-year-old star of the million journals to distribute each year the savings to form. commercial. From 7.00am one cold Sat- the RNLI are significant indeed. Please be reassured urday morning in January to 6.00pm on Your support on this change has been most encour- that because we can more Sunday, they launched the lifeboat many aging and as a result THE LIFEBOAT is now being des- effectively manage this times, ran up and down streets, jumped patched in 'polylopes' on a regular basis. Nearly a type of payment, better in the sea and stayed cheerful while the thousand members have written to say that they approve than for example stand- scenes for the commercial were filmed. of the change, with less than a dozen members writing ing orders, we can pro- The commercial is dedicated to their to express dissent. vide a better service. commitment and enthusiasm.

18 ©ok hi f some recent publications reviewed

The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats Rigid Inflatable Boats grounding, rescue work and by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison by Colin Jones many other more specialised The Shoreham Harbour Life- years beginning in 1865 with Published by Waterline aspects. boats was first compiled by the pulling and sailing Ramonet at £14.95 Even sailing boats are now Anthony Oliver, now the and ending with the current ISBN 1 853103136 manoeuvred under power RNLI's deputy head of Tyne and D class. The RNLI was a pioneer in the more often than sail in con- fundraising and marketing, Illustrated with some pe- use of rigid inflatable boats fined waters, and it is the way nearly 30 years ago but the riod and some more modern (RIBs) following the work of in which the boat is handled in station's honorary secretary photographs the booklet is a Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare these situations which reflects John Harrison has now com- fascinating insight into a and the subsequent introduc- most on the skills and abilities pleted the task of adding the town's lifeboat history. tion of the Atlantic 21 - which of her helmsman. years from 1965 to bring the The Shoreham Harbour has now given over 20 years John Mellor's useful and story up to date to the 1990s. Lifeboats is available at £2.30 sterling service as a lifeboat. readable book is an excellent Tracing the story from the (including p&p) from the Since then the virtues of step towards avoiding em- sketchy records of the earliest honorary secretary, John the RIB have become recog- barrassment (and damage) in known lifeboat in the town in Harrison at 12 Downsway, nised in a much wider field front of the assembled marina about 1845 the booklet chroni- Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sus- and the type is frequently seen multitudes and perhaps re- cles in more detail the RNLI sex BN43 5GH. in military, safety and leisure ducing the number of lifeboat uses. This book by Colin Jones call-outs! Two aspects of Lytham St Annes looks both at the development and handling of the breed and Lists of British Lifeboats The Ladies On Those Infernal also the various uses to which Combined Edition revised and A Century of Service Ribble Banks it can be put. Safety figures edited by Jeff Morris by Frank Kilroy A Record of Lytham St Annes frequently in the text and the Published by the Lifeboat Frank Kilroy is the honorary Lifeboats Atlantic 21 comes in for men- Enthusiasts Society secretary of Lytham lifeboat by David Forshaw tion on several occasions - The late Grahame Farr pro- station and a regular con- The intriguing title of this usually as the 'industry stand- duced Part 1 of his List of Brit- tributor to lifeboat history in 185-page soft-back book ard' for the safest RIB around. ish Lifeboats (non self-right- the area. However, in this stems from a quote attributed A valuable book for the RIB ing pulling and sailing life- booklet he turns the spotlight to the master of a schooner owner (or those aspiring to boats) in 1983 and Part 2 (the away from the station and wrecked on the Ribble Banks be) readable, practical and self-righting equivalents) was the lifeboats themselves on in 1856 - far from the first or obviously based on the published later, after his death, to those who have worked last vessel to suffer a similar seamanlike author's long ex- in November that year. so hard to fund the activities fate on the sandbanks which perience. Jeff Morris, the honorary of the service. infest the 50sq miles of the archivist of the Lifeboat En- This celebration of the 100 wide Ribble estuary. Boat Handling Under Power thusiasts Society has now years of St Annes Ladies The difficult conditions, A Motorboat and Yacht made amendments which Lifeboat Guild (the first to with shallow waters, fast Owners' Guide have come to light in the inter- reach this milestone) is a tidal streams and short steep by John Mellor vening years and arranged for fascinating glimpse of the seas have shaped the Lytham Published by Adlard Coles the two volumes to be pub- way in which fundraising and St Annes lifeboats' his- at £9.99 lished in a new combined has changed during a cen- tory since the first RNLI sta- ISBN 0-7136-3641-6 form, listing, for the first time tury of 'progress'. Starting tion was established in the The cover photograph, a all pulling and sailing lifeboats with the work of Charles 1850s. David Forshaw has a modern fast motor yacht, (RNLI and non-RNLI) which Macara and his wife in sup- long association with the might mislead potential pur- have been built in this country. port of the men who manned station and his book is a well- chasers of John Mellor's excel- The book is available from the wood-built pulling and judged mixture of history lent volume into believing that Mike Searle at 16 Picketts, sailing lifeboat it ends with and accounts of some of the it concerns itself just with this Welwyn Garden City, Herts the work of the guild in the more difficult services over type of boat. However it is the AL8 7HJ for £5. Cheques early 90s, as they prepare for the years. second line of the title which should be made payable to the their 100th year in 1993 in The book is available by is most relevant, as here we Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society. support of the current gen- post at £6.20 including p&p have a book in which the sail- eration of lifeboatmen in the from the honorary Secretary ing yacht, displacement mo- Also received. town's steel built Tyne class. of Lytham St Annes Lifeboat tor cruiser or workboat are Looking After Your Dinghy The booklet is also avail- Station, Frank Kilroy, at 35 given equal weight. Indeed the by Terry Smith able by post from Mrs I. W. Ripon Road, Ansdell scope of this well-illustrated published by Adlard Coles Miller-Hynde,21 Greenwich Lytham, Lancashire FY8 4DS. book goes further than the Nautical at £9.99 cover might imply, examin- Well illustrated, 96-page soft- Drive, Ansdell, Lytham St Cheques should be made back. Covers maintenance and Annes, Lancashire at £4.20 payable to' RNLI Lytham St ing not only the basics of repair of hull, rig and fittings including P&P. Annes Station Branch'. handling boats under power for racing or cruising dinghies. but also mooring, anchoring, 19 LIFEBOAT SERVICES

Aberdeen, Grampian Bembridge, Isle of Wight Dunbar, Lothian 52ft Arun ON 1062: Sept 25 47/t Tyne ON 1126: Aug 1, 6,12, Sept 6, Oct 9 48ft 6in Solent ON 1020: Aug 3,11 and 28 Aberdovey, Gwynedd and 25 D class: Aug 3 Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 2 (twice), 3 (twice), 5, D class: Aug 1,3, 8,16, 27 and Sept 13 Dungeness, Kent 7, and 30 (twice) Blackpool, Lancashire 37/t 6in Rather ON 1036: Aug 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd D class: Aug 1,15 (twice), 19 (twice) and Oct 12m Mersey ON 1186: Sept 26 and Oct 4 Atlantic 21: Aug 11,16, 30, Sept 6, 7, and Oct 3 (twice) Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin 3 Aberystwyth, Dyfed Blyth, Northumberland 44ft Waveney ON 1036: Aug 12 and 18 C class: Aug 2, 7, 21, 27, Sept 2, and 8 (twice) 44ft Waveney ON 1079: Aug 31 Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1005: Sept 10, 27 and Aith, Shetland D class: Aug 1 28 52ft Arun ON 1100: Aug 2, 8 and Oct 31 Borth, Dyfed D class: Aug 5,12, 23 (three times) and 25 Aldeburgh, Suffolk D class: Aug 20 and Sept 27 Relief D class: Sept 10,11, 27,28 and Oct 12 37ft 6inch Rather ON 1068: Aug 12,15, 28, 30 Bridlington, Humberside Dunmore East, Co Waterford and Oct 25 12m Mersey ON 1124: Aug 2, 7,17,22, 30, Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1005: Aug 3,4 (twice) D class: Aug 9,15,17, 20, 29 (twice), 30 Sept 3, 6, Oct 5,14, and 25 (twice) and 10 (twice) and Sept 22 D class: Aug 6 (three times), 9 (twice), 15 Eastbourne, East Sussex Alderney, Channel Islands (four times), 17, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 31 (three 37ft 6in Rather ON 1055: Oct 22 and 27 44ft Waveney ON 1045: Aug 6,8,11,12 times), Sept 12,13,14 and Oct 10 Relief 37ft 6in Rather ON 1064: Aug 14, Sept 3, (twice), 13 (twice), 30 (twice), Sept 3 and 7 Brighton, East Sussex and 28 Amble, Northumberland Atlantic 21: Aug 4,7 (twice), 11 (twice), 30, Sept D class: Aug 1, 2,14,15, 21 (twice), 28, Sept 3, 44ft Waveney ON 1004: Aug 14, 20 (twice), 27, 1, 5,11,14, 22, 27 (four times), Oct 2, 4 and 25 Oct 10 and 22 31, Sept 3, 22, 23, and 25 Broughty Ferry (Dundee), Tayside Exmouth, South Devon D class: Aug 20 (twice), 27, 20 and Sept 25 52ft Arun ON 1056: Aug 9, 28, Sept 18 and 33ft Brede ON 1088: Aug 12,15, 26, 29 (three Angle, Dyfed Oct 26 times), 31 (four times), Sept 19 and Oct 7 47ft Tyne ON 1114: Aug 8,13 (twice), 17, 28 D class: Oct 24 and 26 D class: Aug 11,15,19, 22, 23, 30, 31 (four (twice), Sept 1,14,16,17, 22 and Oct 10 Relief D class: Aug 1 (twice), 28, Sept 18, 24 times), Sept 10, 28, Oct 7, 9 and 25 (twice) Anstruther, Fife and Oct 13 Eyemouth, Borders 12m Mersey ON 1174: Aug 2,16 (twice), Sept Buckie, Grampian 44ft Waveney ON 1026: Aug 3,29, Sept 3,27, 25, Oct 13 and 29 52ft Arun ON 1093: Aug 5 and Oct 9 28 and Oct 16 Appledore, North Devon Bude, Cornwall Falmouth, Cornwall 47ft Tyne ON 1140: Aug 6,18, 22 (twice) Sept Relief D class: Aug 10 and 16 52ft Arun ON 1058: Aug 22 (twice) and 29 15, Oct 7,12, and 20 Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex (twice) Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (twice), 3 (three times), 22 D class: Aug 3 (twice), 7,15,17 and Oct 19 Relief 52ft Arun ON 1086: Oct 4 (twice) Sept 17 and Oct 20 Burry Port, Dyfed Atlantic 21: Aug 3 (twice), 9 (twice), 22, 23 Arbroath, Tayside D class: Aug 10, Sept 15 and Oct 4 (four times), 28, 29 (four times), 31 (three 37ft 6in Rather ON 1054: Aug 11, 14 and Sept Calshot, Hampshire times), Oct 9 and 15 (twice) 15 33ft Brede ON 1104: Oct 24 (twice) Filey, North Yorkshire Arklow, Co Wicklow Relief 33ft Brede ON 1090: Aug 9 and 25 22m Mersey ON 1170: Sept 20, and Oct 25 Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1029: Aug 3, 25, Sept Campbeltown, Strathclyde (twice) 5 and Oct 25 52ft Arun ON 1059: Aug 3,16, 31 and Oct 12 D class: Aug 13,15,17 (twice), 19, 26,31 Arran (Lamlash), Strathclyde Clacton-on-Sea, Essex (twice), Sept 14 and Oct 4 C class: Aug 1 (twice), 4, 20, and Sept 4 Atlantic 21: Aug 5,13 (twice), 21, 26 (twice), Fishguard, Dyfed Arranmore, Co Donegal 30 (twice), Sept 16, 28, 29, Oct 4, 5 and 18 52ft Arun ON 1076: Aug 22,28, Sept 7 and 13 Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1115: Aug 7 D class: Aug 3 and Sept 2 Flamborough, Humberside 47ft Tyne ON 1111: Sept 6, 7,21, Oct 7, 27,28, Cleethorpes, Humberside 37ft Oakley ON 972: Aug 7,19, Oct 9,25 and 29 and 31 D class: Aug 1, 3,12,16, 25, Sept 12, 20 and 26 Atlantic College (St Donat's Castle), South Oct 18 Fleetwood, Lancashire Glamorgan Clifden, Co Galway 47/f Tyne ON 1156: Aug 12,15,18, 22, Sept 27 Atlantic 21: Oct 1 C class: Aug 4 and 6 and Oct 2 Ballycotton, Co Cork Conwy, Gwynedd D class: Aug 22 (twice), 23, 24, Sept 7, Oct 3,4 52ft Arun ON 1067: Aug 9 and Oct 11 D class: Aug 6 and 8 and 20 Baltimore, Co Cork Relief D class: Aug 18, 26 (twice) and Oct 23 Flint, Clwyd 47ft Tyne ON 1137: Aug 1,19, 21, 24, Oct 20 Courtown, Co Wexford D class: Aug 14,16 and Oct 25 and 22 D class: Aug 13, 20, 27 and Sept 5 Relief D class: Aug 2 Ballyglass, Co Mayo Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co Cork Fowey, Cornwall 52ft Arun ON 1159: Oct 17 Relief 48ft 6in Solent ON 1011: Aug 3, 9,11 Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1003: Aug 12, 24, 25, Bangor, Co Down and Oct 3 31 and Sept 28 Atlantic 21: Aug 11,15,19,23, Sept 6, 20 Criccieth, Gwynedd Fraserburgh, Grampian (twice), 27, Oct 12 and 13 C class: Aug 14,18, 22, 27, 29 and 31 (three 47/t Tyne ON 1109: Sept 4, 8,12,15 and Oct Barmouth, Gwynedd times) 28 37ft 6in Rather ON 1063: Aug 18 and 30 Crimdon Dene, Co Durham Galway Bay, Co Galway D class: Aug 1, 2 (twice), 4 and 18 (twice) D class: Aug 20 52ft Arun ON 1118: Aug 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, Barra Island, Western Isles Cromer, Norfolk 22, Sept 5,15 and 20 52ft Arun ON 1143: Aug 3, Sept 20 and Oct 5 47ft Tyne ON 1097: Aug 17 (twice), 21, Oct 14 Girvan, Strathclyde Barrow, Cumbria and 24 33/f Brede ON 1105: Aug 21 and Oct 19 47/t Tyne ON 1117: Aug 21, 23, Sept 3,13, D class: Aug 5,12 and 19 Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and 30 Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear 44ft Waveney ON 1065: Aug 7,16,17, 29 D class: Aug 17, 21, 27, 31, Sept 3,13 and 17 Atlantic 21: Sept 16 (three times), 30, Sept 14,15, Oct 22, and 25 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan Donaghadee, Co Down D class: Aug 1 (twice), 4, 5,11,16 (twice), 29, 52ft Arun ON 1018: Aug 1, 8,13,16, 22 (three 52ft Arun ON 1107: Aug 1 and Sept 6 31, Sept 4,14,20, Oct 25, 26 and 27 times), 23, 25, 29, 30 (twice), Sept 11 (twice), Douglas, Isle of Man Happisburgh, Norfolk 24, 28, Oct 5 and 11 47ft Tyne ON 1147: Sept 4 and 13 D class: Aug 2,17, Sept 11, 20 and Oct 14 Beaumaris, Gwynedd Dover, Kent Hartlepool, Cleveland Atlantic 21: Aug 3,15 (twice), 20, 30, 31 50ft Thames ON 1031: Aug 1, 3,10,15 (twice), 44ft Waveney ON 1044: Aug 20, 31, Sept 26, (twice), Sept 26 (twice), Oct 3,4, 5,9 (twice), 17,20, 25,26, 30, Sept 6 (twice), 11,12 Oct 16 and 19 Atlantic 21: Aug 12, 29, Sept 15, 24 and 25 (twice), 13 (twice), 19, 23 Oct 4 and 5 16, and 26 (twice)

20 AUGUST SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1992

Harwich, Essex The Lizard, Cornwall Newquay, Cornwall 44ft Waveney ON 1060: Aug 16, 22, 30, Sept 1, 47ft Tyne ON 1145: Aug 22, Sept 6,13, 21 and C class: Aug 26, 29, Sept 6,10 and Oct 10 3, and 24 Oct 17 Relief C class: Aug 1 (twice), 14 and 21 (twice) Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9,18, 21 (twice), Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1142: Aug 4, 8 and 13 New Quay, Dyfed 24 (twice), 28, 29 (twice), 30 (three times), Llandudno (Orme's Head), Gwynedd 12m Mersey ON 1172: Aug 1,2 and 27 Sept 6,13,15,16,17,19, 24, Oct 3, 4 (three 12m Mersey ON 1164: Aug 22, 25, 26 (twice) D class: Aug 1, 9,10,12 (three times ) and times), 11 and 31 and Oct 3 (twice) Sept 16 Hastings, East Sussex D class: Aug 3,13, 22,26 (twice), Oct 3 North Berwick, Lothian 12m Mersey ON 1125: Aug 2, Sept 5 and 9 (twice), 8 and 18 Relief D class: Aug 2 and 5 D class: Oct 4 and 19 Lochinver, Highland North Sunderland, Northumberland Relief D class: Aug 1, 4, 31 and Sept 8 52ft Arun ON 1144: Aug 22 and Sept 7 12m Mersey ON 1173: Aug 2, 4 and Sept 28 Hayling Island, Hampshire Looe, Cornwall D class: Oct 22 Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (four times), 2,15,23,29 D class: Sept 14,16, 20,24, 25 and Oct 25 Relief D class: Aug 1, 2,14,18, Sept 8,13 and (five times), 30, 31 (twice), Sept 12, 26, Oct 4 Lough Swilly (Buncrana), Co Donegal 28 (three times), 5, 6,11,15,16, 23 and 25 (four D class: Aug 3 (twice), 11,12, 24 (twice), 25 Oban, Strathclyde times) (twice), 26 Sept 6 (twice), 13 and Oct 6 33ft Brede ON 1102: Aug 2, 7, 9,16,17, 20 Helensburgh, Strathclyde Lowestoft, Suffolk (twice), 23 (twice), 26, 31, Sept 5,12,19, 26, Atlantic 21: Aug 9,16,30, Sept 3,6, 7,13,16, 47ft Tyne ON 1132: Aug 30 (twice), Sept 6 Oct 14, 20 (three times), 21, 23 (twice) and 27 19 (twice), Oct 2, 4 and 13 and 13 Padstow, Cornwall Holyhead, Gwynedd Lyme Regis, Dorset 47ft Tyne ON 1094: Aug 1 (twice), 15,16, Sept 47ft Tyne ON 1095: Aug 4, 23, Sept 19, 27,28 Atlantic 21: Aug 3, 7 (three times), 26, 28, Oct 3, 21, 22 and Oct 4 and Oct 20 3,4 and 6 Peel, Isle of Man D class: Aug 4 and Oct 20 Lymington, Hampshire 12m Mersey ON 1181: Sept 17 and 19 Horton and Port Eynon, West Glamorgan Atlantic 21: Aug 3 (twice), 8,11 (twice), 12,15 Relief 12m Mersey ON 1148: Aug 6 D class: Aug 17, 22, 28, Oct 11,13 and 26 (twice), 22,23, Sept 3 (twice), 4, Oct 14 and 25 Penarth, South Glamorgan Howth, Co Dublin Lytham St Annes, Lancashire D class: Aug 1,4,15,16 (twice), 30 (three 52ft Arun ON 1113: Aug 1,9,18, 22 (four 47ft Tyne ON 1155: Aug 6, 29, 31, Sept 30 times), Sept 19, Oct 11 and 25 times), 25, Sept 10 (twice), 28, Oct 2, and 25 (twice), and Oct 7 Penlee, Cornwall D class: Aug 5,16, 21, 26, 27 (twice), Sept 6, D class: Aug 20, 29, 30, Sept 7,15,19 and 30 52ft Arun ON 1085: Oct 4 11 (twice), 28 Oct 21 Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire Peterhead, Grampian Hoylake, Merseyside D class: Aug 2,3,4,5,13,17,28, 29,31 and 47ft Tyne ON 1127: Aug 22 and Oct 25 12m Mersey ON 1163: Aug 8,12,14 (twice), Oct 29 Plymouth, South Devon 16,30, Sept 17 and 25 Macduff, Grampian 52ft Arun ON 1136: Aug 8,10 (twice), 26 Humber, Humberside Atlantic 21: Aug 19 and Oct 9 (twice), 29 (twice), 30 (three times), Sept 4, 52ft Arun ON 1123: Aug 1, 5,15,19, 21 (three Mallaig, Highland 19, 29, 30, Oct 3, 5,10 and 17 times), 22 (twice), Sept 4, 6, 9,11,13,19, 26, 52ft Arun ON 1078: Aug 4,6,19, 21,22,23, Poole, Dorset Oct 4, 5,9,14 and 18 29, Sept 8, Oct 11,16 and 22 33ft Brede ON 1089: Aug 3 (four times), 10,11 Hunstanton, Norfolk Margate, Kent (twice), 22,23, 27 (three times), 20,30 (twice), Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (twice), 2, 13, 25 Sept 1,11 12m Mersey ON 1177: Aug 12,14 (twice), 18, 31, Sept 4 (three times), 29, Oct 6 and 10 (twice), Oct 4 (twice), 9 and 25 26, 30, Sept 29, Oct 12 (twice) and 20 (twice) Ilfracombe, North Devon Relief 12m Mersey ON 1169: Oct 27 Boston Whaler: Aug 1,3 (five times), 5 (twice), 12m Mersey ON 1165: Aug 16, Sept 9,13 and D class: Aug 9,10,11,14,15, 22, Sept 3, 26, 6,11 (three times), 22, 23, 25, 27 (twice), 30 Oct 27 Oct 12 and 25 (twice), 31, Sept 1,3,4 (three times), 16,17 D class: Aug 1, 3,16,18, 25 (twice), Sept 28, Marazion, Cornwall (three times), 29, Oct 5, 6 and Oct 10 (three Oct 9 and 17 D class: Aug 28 times) Invergordon, Highland Minehead, Somerset Poole, Dorset (Training) 44ft Waveney ON 1033: Aug 30 and Oct 5 Atlantic 21: Aug 19, 22 and Sept 3 12m Mersey ON 1185: Sept 15 Islay, Strathclyde D class: Aug 2 and 19 Portaf erry, Co Down 50ft Thames ON 1032: Oct 21 Moelfre, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 14,15,29, Sept 10, 23,28 and Relief 52ft Arun ON 1077: Aug 6,14,16, 23, 47ft Tyne ON 1116: Aug 1 (twice), 7,25 and 31 29 SeptS, 11 and 14 D class: Aug 1, 2,3,15,16, 25,28 and Sept 15 Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan Kinghorn, Fife Montrose, Tayside D class: Aug 1, 2,10,14,17 (twice), 20, 22,31, C class: Aug 11,18, 20, 30, Sept 2, 25, Oct 23, 47ft Tyne ON 1152: Aug 23,24 and Sept 19 Sept 12, 20, Oct 16 and 18 31 (twice) Morecambe, Lancashire Porthdinllaen, Gwynedd Kippford, Dumfries and Galloway D class: Aug 29 and Sept 30 47ft Tyne ON 1120: Aug 3, 28, Sept 7 and 13 D class: Aug 12 (three times), 19 and Sept 26 Mudeford, Dorset Portree, Isle of Skye Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway Atlantic 21: Aug 1,4, 9, 20, 23, Sept 1, Oct 9 44ft Waveney ON 1042: Sept 2, 4, 6, Oct 5, 28 Atlantic 21: Aug 12 (twice) and Sept 26 and 25 (twice) and 30 Kirkwall, Orkney Relief Atlantic 21: Sept 6, 7,12,19 and 23 Port Erin, Isle of Man 52ft Arun ON 1135: Sept 27 The Mumbles, West Glamorgan Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 14 and Sept 28 Kilkeel, Co Down 47ft Tyne ON 1096: Aug 3 and 12 Port Isaac, Cornwall Af/fl«f;c2J:Sept3and6 Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1142: Aug 23, Sept 12, Oct D class: Aug 2 (twice), 3, 4, 6, 9,10,16, 22 Largs, Strathclyde 2 (twice), 10 and 19 (twice), 29, Sept 17,19 and Oct 27 Atlantic 21: Aug 4,16,17,19,22, 23, Sept 8, D class: Aug 6 13,19, 22, 26 (three times), Oct 22 and 31 Relief D class: Aug 22, 28 (twice), Sept 22, Oct Lerwick, Shetland 2 and 4 Relief 52ft Arun ON 1057: Aug 24,30, Sept 3 New Brighton, Merseyside Lifeboat Services (twice), 6, 21 and Oct 8 Atlantic 21: Aug 6,13,16 (eight times), 17, 28, August September Little and Broad Haven, Dyfed 30, 31, Sept 17,19, 25 (twice), 27 (twice), Oct D class: Aug 21, 25, 29 (twice) and Sept 12 9,18 and 22 and October 1992 Littlehampton, West Sussex Newcastle, Co Down The services listed are those for which Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 6, 9,14, 23, 26 (twice), Relief 37ft Oakley ON 942: Aug 21,23,25 returns had been received at Headquar- Sept 1,4,20, Oct 4 (five times) and 10 (twice) (twice), 30, Sept 6, 21 and Oct 15 ters by 1 February 1993. There may be Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent Newhaven, East Sussex additional services for which returns had Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (three times), 2 52ft Arun ON 1106: Aug 1, 3, 6, 9 (twice), 16, not been received by that date. (twice), 6 and 16 30, Sept 3,11,15, Oct 17 and 27

21 Salcombe, South Devon Tobermory, Strathclyde 47ft Tyne ON 1130: Aug 3,7,13,23,25,26,30, 54ft Arun ON 1052: Aug 5,11,15, 21 (twice), LIFEBOAT SERVICES Sept 3,13 and 27 Sept 1 and 6 Scarborough, North Yorkshire Torbay, South Devon August September 12m Mersey ON 1175: Aug 12,19, Sept 19 and 54ft Arun ON 1037: Aug 2, 20, 22 (twice), 27, Oct 9 Sept 25,27, 28, Oct 13,19, 20, 22, 24 and 25 and October 1992 D class: Aug 6 and 31 D class: Aug 3, 7,11, 20 and 30 Continued Selsey, West Sussex Tramore, Co Waterford 47ft Tyne ON 1074: Aug 1 (three times), 2, 7, D class: Aug 9 15, 30, Sept 22, Oct 13 and 25 Trearddur Bay, Gwynedd Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway D class: Aug 22, Sept 27, Oct 1 and 11 D class: Aug 1 and 12 47ft Tyne ON 1151: Aug 15 and 19 Relief D class: Aug 1 (twice) and 2 Relief D class: Aug 23 (twice), Sept 26, Oct 2 Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1146: Sept 16,17, Oct 1 Sennen Cove, Cornwall and 20 and 7 12m Mersey ON 1176: Aug 15, Sept 21 and 26 Troon, Strathclyde Portrush, Co Antrim Relief 12m Mersey ON 1162: Aug 22, 26, 29 52ft Arun ON 1134: Aug 3, 7,10,16, 24, 29, 52ft Arun ON 1070: Aug 4,6,9,27, Sept 5,23, Sheerness, Kent 31, Sept 7, 25, 27, 28 (twice) and Oct 31 29, Oct 4 and 13 44ft Waveney ON 1027: Oct 31 twice) Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour), Hamp- Relief 44ft Waveney 1002: Aug 19, 22,26,30 52ft Arun ON 1061: Aug 20, 25, Sept 18, Oct 2 shire (nine times), Sept 1 (three times) and Oct 11 and 7 Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3, 7, 8, 9,10,12,15 (twice), (three times) Valentia, Co Kerry 23,28,31, Sept 7,13,21, 27, 30, Oct 4 (twice), D class: Sept 13, (twice), 18,19 (twice), 21,26, 52ft Arun ON 1052: Aug 14,17, Sept 10 and 15,18, 23, 24 and 27 Oct 11 (twice) and 24 14 D class: Aug 3, 8,10,15, 31, Sept 13 and 21 Relief D class: Aug 20, 22 (twice), 23 (twice), Walmer, Kent Port St Mary, Isle of Man 26 (three), Sept 1 (four times) and 6 Atlantic 21: Aug 13, Sept 5,8,17,18,25, Oct 54ft Arun ON 1051: Oct 14 Sheringham, Norfolk 15 and 27 D class: Oct 14 Atlantic 21: Aug 11,12,17, Sept 5,8 and D class: Aug 2,25,28, Sept 5,18 Oct 27 Port Talbot, West Glamorgan Oct 28 Walton and Frinton, Essex D class: Aug 12 and Sept 19 Shoreham Harbour, West Sussex 48ft 6in Solent ON 1012: Aug 13,15,19, 23, 26 Pwllheli, Gwynedd 47ft Tyne ON 1158: Aug 2,9,13,17, 23, Sept 2 and 30 (twice) 12m Mersey ON 1168: Aug 25,29, Sept 7 and 28 and 23 Relief 48ft 6in Solent ON 1019: Oct 10 Queensferry, Lothian Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1075: Oct 4 Wells, Norfolk Atlantic 21: Aug 10, 20, Sept 13,19, 23, Oct 11 D class: Aug 22 and 23 12m Mersey ON 1161: Sept 8 (twice) and 19 Relief D class: Aug 1, 2, 4 and 9 D class: Aug 13, 22, 25, Sept 8, Oct 9 and 17 Ramsey, Isle of Man Silloth, Cumbria West Kirby, Merseyside 22m Mersey ON 1171: Aug 21 and 30 Relief Atlantic 21: Oct 11 D class: Aug 1,14 and Oct 31 Ramsgate, Kent Skegness, Lincolnshire Relief D class: Aug 31 (twice), Sept 22 and 24 47ft Tyne ON 1154: Aug 1, 3,12,16 (three 12m Mersey ON 1166: Aug 1,15,16,17, 21 West Mersea, Essex times), 22 (twice), Oct 12 and 20 and Sept 13 Atlantic 21: Aug 13, 23, 30 (five times), Sept Atkntic 21: Aug 7,17,22 (twice) and Oct 20 D class: Aug 1,2,4,5 (twice), 13,17,21,24, 28, Oct 4, 6,9 (twice) and 25 (three times) Red Bay, Co Antrim Sept 15 (twice) and Oct 14 Weston-super-Mare, Avon C class: Aug 13 (twice) and 31 Skerries, Co Dublin Atlantic 21: Aug 15,28,29,30, Sept 6 and Oct Redcar, Cleveland D class: Aug 26 31 Atlantic 21: Aug 2,16, Oct 6 and 25 Southend-on-Sea, Essex Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 4, 9 and 14 D class: Oct 6 D class: Aug 1,2,4 (twice), 9,18,19,22, 27 D class: Aug 21,28,29, 30 and Sept 6 Rhyl, Clwyd (twice), Oct 4 (twice), 22, 27 (twice) and 31 Weymouth, Dorset 12m Mersey ON 1183: Aug, 6,16 (three Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (twice), 2 (five times), 7, 9, 54ft Arun ON 1049: Aug 1, 3,11,12,13 times), 26, 27, Sept 6, 7,10 and Oct 25 (three 15 (twice), 22 (twice), 23,27,30 (twice), Sept (twice), 19,22,28,30 (twice), Sept 4,11 and times) 12 (three times), 13 (twice), 28 (twice), 29, Oct 25 D class: Aug 2, 5, 7 (twice), 16, 20,21 (twice), Oct 4,11,24 and 31 Whitby, North Yorkshire 26 and 27 Southwold, Suffolk 47ft Tyne ON 1131: Aug 9,18, Sept 14 and 23 Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 5,11,12,15, 22, 25 Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1122: Oct 11 (twice), 12, Relief 52ft Arun ON 1160: Aug 1, Sept 20 (twice), 29 and 30 13, 26 and 28 and 22 Stornoway (Lewis), Western Isles D class: Aug 10 (twice), 13, 22 (twice), 24, 29, Rye Harbour, East Sussex 52ft Arun ON 1098: Sept 7 and 11 31 and Sept 18 C class: Aug 1,15, 26 (twice), Sept 9 and Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway Relief D class: Oct 8,11 and 23 Oct 11 D class: Aug 8 and Sept 2 Whitstable, Kent St Abbs, Borders Stromness, Orkney Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 1 (twice), 2,9,11,12 Atlantic 21: Sept 20 (twice), Oct 3 and 11 52ft Arun ON 1099: Aug 13, Sept 14 and 27 (twice), 27 (twice), 29 (twice), Sept 2, 6 (four St Agnes, Cornwall Sunderland, Tyne and Wear times), 18, 26, Oct 8 and 10 D class: Aug 2 44ft Waveney ON 1043: Sept 20,26, Oct 3 and 8 Wick, Highland St Bees, Cumbria Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1001: Aug 16, 25, Sept 47ft Tyne ON 1121: Oct U C class: Oct 6 and 18 3 and 5 Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1133: Aug 18; 30 and St Catherine, Channel Islands D class: Aug 16, 26 and Sept 20 Sept 26 Atlantic 21: Aug 6,27, 31, Sept 12,15,23 and Swanage, Dorset Wicklow, Co Wicklow Oct 23 (twice) 12m Mersey ON 1182: Aug 1,15, 20,22, 29, 30 47ft Tyne ON 1153: Aug 2 (three times), 8, St David's, Dyfed (three times) and Oct 25 Sept 4, 22, Oct 9,18 and 25 47ft Tyne ON 1139: Sept 25 and 26 Teesmouth, Cleveland Withernsea, Humberside Relief 47ft Tyne ON 1146: Aug 3,15 (twice) 47ft Tyne ON 1110: Aug 13, Sept 6, 25 (twice), D class: Aug 11,19, 20,24,29,31 (three and 29 (twice) St Helier, Channel Islands 26,28, Oct 13 and 25 times) and Sept 3 47ft Tyne ON 1157: Aug 3,4,13,15 (twice), Teignmouth, Devon Relief D class: Oct 18 16, 20, 22 (twice), 27, 31 and Sept 3 Atlantic 21: Aug 1,18, 23, 26, 29 (four times), Workington, Cumbria St Ives, Cornwall Sept 2,17,25 and Oct 21 (twice) 47ft Tyne ON 1141: Aug 3, 5, 22, Sept 19 and 12m Mersey ON 1167: Sept 18, 20,21, 22 and Tenby, Dyfed Oct 6 Oct 8 47ft Tyne ON 1112: Aug 31, Sept 12 (three Yarmouth, Isle of Wight C class: Aug 21, 28 and Sept 12 (twice) times), 20 (twice), and Oct 27 52ft Arun ON 1053: Aug 1,3 (four times), 15, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly D class: Sept 20 (twice), 27 and 28 16, 29, Sept 1, 3,12,15, 26 (three times), Oct 52ft Arun ON 1073: Aug 12, 27 and Sept 1 Relief D class: Aug 3 (twice), 7,9,10,12,16, 5,11,18 and 25 Relief 52ft Arun ON 1086: Aug 3 17,20, 24,25, 26,28 (twice), 29,30, 31 (twice) Youghal, Co Cork St Peter Port, Channel Islands and Sept 2 Atlantic 21: Aug 12, 24 and Oct 13 52ft Arun ON 1025: Aug 9, 20 (twice), 22, 24, Thurso, Highland 29 (twice), Sept 5,13,16, 26, Oct 6 Relief 52ft Arun ON 1103: Oct 1 Relief 52ft Arun ON 1108: Oct 24, 25 (twice), Tighnabruaich, Strathclyde Lifeboats on Passage 28 and 30 D class: Aug 3,4,22 and Sept 7 22m Mersey ON 1186: Aug 13 and Sept 1

22 Around the Fundraising Regions branches and guilds in the Southern and Republic of Ireland regions

SOUTHERN Mudeford - Branch Ringwood Devizes Mudeford - Guild Romsey and District Highworth and District ENGLAND Poole - Branch Southampton Lifeboat Board Malmesbury and District Poole - Guild Southampton - Bassett and Marlborough and District RNLI Shaftesbury District Melksham 17 Cobham Road Sherborne Southampton - Bitterne Pewsey and District Ferndown Swanage - Branch Southampton - City and Salisbury Wimborne Swanage - Guild Docks South West Wilts Dorset BH21 7PE Verwood and Cranborne Southampton - Guild Stonehenge District Tel (0202) 861166 Wareham and District Southampton - Shirley Swindon Fax(0202) 861116 West Moors and District Southampton - Test Trowbridge Regional Manager: Guild Southampton - West End Warminster and District Mrs E. W. Nelson Weymouth - Branch Southampton - West Itchen Westbury Weymouth - Guild Southampton - Woolston Wilton and District Berkshire Wimborne and District Stockbridge Wootten Bassett and District Ascot Tadley and District Wroughton and District Bracknell and District Hampshire Totton Caversham Aldershot Waterloo ville Channel Islands Cookham Alton Watership Down Alderney - Branch Crowthorne and District Andover Wickham/Curdridge Alderney - Guild Datchet Basingstoke and District Winchester Guernsey (St. Peter Port) - Hungerford Bishop's Waltham Yateley Branch Lambourn Botley Guernsey - Guild Maidenhead Bransgore and District Guild Isle of Wight Jersey (St. Helier) - Branch Mortimer and District Calshot - Branch Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board Jersey (St. Catherine) - Newbury and District Calshot -Calshotand Back of the Wight Branch Old Windsor District Fundraising Branch Bembridge - Branch Jersey- Guild Pangbourne and District Denmead / Hambledon Bembridge - Guild Reading Eastleigh and District Cowes Guild Slough and District Emsworth East Cowes Sonning Fareham Newport REPUBLIC OF St Sebastians Farnborough Ryde IRELAND Tilehurst and Purley Fleet and District Sandown and District Twyford, Ruscombe and Fordingbridge and District Seaview/St Helens Hurst Gosport Shanklin and District RNLI Wargrave Hamble - Branch Ventnor and District 15 Windsor Terrace Windsor Hamble - Guild Wootton Creek Dun Laoghaire Wokingham and District Hartley Wintney Yarmouth - Branch Co Dublin Woodley Havant Yarmouth - West Wight Tel (010353 1)2845050 Hayling Island - Branch Guild Fax (010 353 1)2845052 Dorset Hayling Island - National Organiser: Beaminster and District Fundraising Branch Oxfordshire J. Cavanagh Blackmore Vale Hedge End Guild Abingdon Blandford and District Hythe and District Days Lock Island Co Carlow Bournemouth - Boscombe Liphook Didcot Carlow County Bournemouth - Guild Liss Faringdon and District Carlow Town Bournemouth - Moordown/ Locks Heath and District Headington Charminster Lymington - Station Branch Henley on Thames and Co Clare Bournemouth - North West Lymington - Branch District Ennis Bournemouth Lymington - Guild North Hinksey Kilrush/Kilkee Bournemouth - Southbourne Lyndhurst Oxford City Lahinch Bournemouth - Westbourne Milford-on-Sea Thame and District Bridport and District New Milton, Barton-on-Sea Wallingford Branches and guilds from the Broadstone Odiham and District Wantage Southern and Republic of Ireland Fundraising regions Are listed Burton Petersfield Wheatley and District under the names and addresses of Canford Heath Portchester Regional Offices and their Re- Christchurch Portsmouth (Langstone Wiltshire gional Managers. Branches are always looking forextra helpers to Dorchester and District Harbour) - Branch Bradford on Avon assist with fundraising, and any- Ferndown and District Portsmouth South Calne one who would like further infor- Highcliffe Portsmouth and Southsea Chippenham mation on how they can help is warmly invited to contact the Lyme Regis - Branch Guild Corsham and District Regional Manager in their region Lyme Regis - Guild Portsdown Cricklade Co Roscommon Co Westmeath Around the Fundraising Regions Boyle Athlone Continued from previous page Mullingar branches and guilds in the Southern and Co Sligo Republic of Ireland regions County Sligo Co Wexford Enniscrone Courtown Enniscorthy Co Cork Skerries Co Tipperary Hook Ballycotton Fundraising Terenure Cahir Kilmore Quay - Branch Committee Carrick-on-Suir Kilmore Quay - Guild Ballydehob Co Galway Cashel New Ross Baltimore Fundraising Clifden Clonmel Wexford/Rosslare - Branch Committee Connemara Nenagh Wexford/Rosslare - Guild Bandon Galway Bay Fundraising Roscrea Bantry Bay Committee Thurles Co Wicklow Castletownbere Galway City Arklow Castletownshend Oughterard Co Waterford Bray Clonakilty Dungarvan Greystones Cobh Co Kerry Dunmore East - Branch Newtownmountkennedy Cork Ballybunion Dunmore East - Guild Wicklow - Branch Courtmacsherry Cahirciveen Lismore / Cappoquin Wicklow - Guild Crookhaven Cahirdaniel Tramore Crosshaven Castlegregory Waterford Kinsale Dingle Leap, Glandore and Union Killarney Killorglin Hall Branches listed in previous issues of The Lifeboat Mallow Sneem Midleton Tralee South East Region - Autumn 1992 Schull Valentia RNLI, River House, Bell Lane, Uckfield, Sussex TN22 1AE Roscarberry Waterville Telephone: (0825) 761466 Fax: (0825) 768093 Skibbereen Regional Manager: M.J. Ashley Co Kildare North West Region - Autumn 1992 Youghal - Branch RNLI, 18 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Manchester M30 9GJ Youghal - Guild Athy Telephone: 061-787 8779 Fax: 061-787 8926 Naas Regional Manager: Ms S. Hennessy Co Donegal North Kildare Central England Region - Summer 1992 Arranmore RNLI, 102 Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B61 ODF Co Kilkenny Telephone: (0527) 575017 Fax: (0527) 579121 Cardonagh / Malin Regional Manager: Ms J. Feeney Donegal Kilkenny Wales Region - Summer 1992 Downings RNLI, Caerwys House, Windsor Lane, Cardiff, S. Glamorgan Dunfanaghy Co Laois CF1 3DE Dungloe, Burtonport and Portlaiose Telephone: (0222) 394546 Fax: (0222) 394546 Regional Manager: Miss A.M. Williams The Rosses Greater London Region - Spring 1992 Gortahork and Falcarragh Co Limerick RNLI, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW Greencastle/Moville Askeaton Telephone: 071-928 5742 Fax: 071-928 0836 Gweedore Foynes Regional Manager: Miss A. Wilkins Killybegs Limerick Eastern Region -Spring 1992 RNLI, Spooners Lane, Hadleigh, Suffolk IP7 5EZ Lough Swilly Telephone: (0473) 822837 Fax: (0473) 824564 Letterkenny Co Longford Regional Manager: G.E. Price Narin, Portnoo and Rosbeg Longford South West Region - Winter 1992/93 Ramelton/Milford/ RNLI, Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 4RN Rathmullan Co Louth Telephone: (0272) 291939 Fax: (0272) 291187 Clogherhead Regional Manager: A. Young North East Region - Winter 1992/93 Co Dublin Drogheda RNLI, The Mill, Glasshouses, Nr. Harrogate, N. Yorkshire HG3 5QH Balbriggan Dundalk Telephone: (0423) 711677 Fax: (0423) 712533 Blanchardstown, Regional Manager: Mrs C. Goodall Castleknock and Clonsilla Co Mayo Butterfield / Rathf arnham Achill Branches to be listed in future issues Ballina Cabinteely Scotland Region Clontarf Ballyglass RNLI, Belleview House, Hopetoun Street, Edinburgh EH7 4ND Dublin Castlebar Telephone: 031-557 9171 Fax: 031-557 6943 Dundrum/Goatstown South Mayo Organising Secretary: D. Richardson Dun Laoghaire - Branch Northern Ireland Region Co Meath RNLI, 33 Saintfield Road, Belfast BT8 4AF Dun Laoghaire - Guild Telephone: (0232) 645645 Fax: (0232) 642083 Howth - Branch Meath County Regional Manager: Mrs M.E. Duffin Howth - Guild Co Of f aly Note: Lucan Prior to 1 January 1993 Regional Managers were known as Regional Organisers Ringsend/East Wall Edenderry Shankill Tullamore

24 £ £ £ THE FUNDRAISERS £ £ £ Some ways of filling the coffers...

Starting Young FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to in- clude notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon swamp the journal. There are some 2,000 Branches and Guilds and if, for example, we were to include one event a month from each, the quarterly journal would need to list some 6,000 events. Even in a barely-readable type size this would occupy more pages than are available in the entire journal! It would be invidious to select just a few events and to exclude others and so we must continue the present policy, which is to report as many fundraising events as possible immediately after Seven-year-old Sally Manners, daughter make the coffee but served it (at lOp a they have taken place. of Morpeth ladies' guild's honorary sec- cup) washed up and generally super- Deadlines for copy are given in retary, organised her own coffee morn- vised proceedings. A bring and buy stall each issue of the journal, and we make ing for the guild and raised a splendid was also manned by children. every effort to include all reports re- £79. Pictured are (from left to right, rear) Olivia ceived in time. Sally was assisted by her friend Olivia Clerey and Sally Manners with Imogen Clerey. For safety reasons they did not Clerey in the foreground.

In Brief Seven into three does go... Seven Nottinghamshire police officers took part in the 1992 Karrimor Three COUPLES took to the floor at Henley Town THE AUTUMN coffee morning held by Peaks Yacht Race last June. First run in Hall for a tea dance in aid of the RNLI. With Bournemouth ladies' guild raised £505, and 1977 the aim is to climb the highest peaks the encouragement of master of ceremonies, its annual bridge afternoon added another in Wales, England and Scotland, travelling Ronnie Manns, the dancers quickstepped, £437. A donation of £1,000, which is received between the locations by yacht. waltzed and tangoed to live music. Between annually from a charitable trust, added yet The race started in Barmouth, Wales the dancing everyone sat down to afternoon more funds and by the end of September tea laid on by the Henley-on-Thames branch 1992 the guild had raised £16,333. in June and attracted entrants from all and £125 was raised from a very enjoyable KAY Magee of Maghera branch, organised over the world. The teams sailed 350 afternoon. an all day Open House at her home and miles and the runners completed 70 miles TWO successful fundraising events were held raised the outstanding sum of £800. of road work and climbed 11,000 feet, by Evesham ladies' guild in the autumn of GUILDFORD Coastal Cruising Club joined including Snowden, Scafell and Ben Ne- 1992 - a fashion extravaganza in Evesham with the musical group Rendezvous and the vis. Arts Centre and a coffee morning in the Guildf ord branch to entertain shoppers with In November the team organised an Evesham Hotel (by invitation of the Jenkinson Christmas carols one Saturday morning last evening event to thank their sponsors family). Together the events raised £2,200. December. The grand sum of £348.42 was ANOTHER successful year has been reported collected in two hours singing in the Friary and to present a cheque for £1,239.87 to by Highcliffe branch, with £10,000 being Centre, Guildford - a considerable tribute to Alan Randall, honorary secretary of forwarded to Headquarters in 1992. 1993 all those taking part. Hucknall branch. A raffle resulted in a started well when a very successful Christ- Twenty-one years of fundraising by Bude further £199 being donated to the RNLI. mas Fayre raised £888. ladies' guild were celebrated with an anni- FAMOUS Names were auctioned by the versary lunch last year. Some 70 members Another Three Peaks Fishguard and Goodwick ladies' guild, attended and the Bude carnival prince and raising a splendid £1,842. Over a period of 12 princess (two five-year-olds) presented the ... with a difference months many famous people were asked to president, Miss Mary Francis, with a bouquet Severe Gale Force 9 winds on August Bank donate gifts for the auction, with items rang- of flowers and cards bearing good wishes holiday in 1992 did not deter over 40 adults ing from a Jaeger scarf to a radio donated by from the town. During the past 21 years the and children from the Borthwen Caravan HM The Queen Mother. guild has raised more than £40,000. TICKETS sold by Merthyr Tydf il branch for FOR two hours on Christmas Eve a team of Site, Llwyngwril, Gwynedd undertaking the a trolley dash at a local Asda Superstore hand-bell ringers from Canvey Island branch Borthwen Three Peaks race. realised £1,600. pealed carols in the shopping arcade in Running and walking from Llwyngwril A FASHION show organised bytheVentnor Canvey Island. With aching wrists the ringers to Fairbourne, climbing three peaks on the and district branch at the town's Winter Gar- were delighted to raise £235 in the short time way, the children set the pace and nobody dens raised over £450. allotted to them. couldcatch them. Most importantly,£338.68 was raised for the Barmouth lifeboat. 25 £ £ £ THE FUNDRAISERS £ £ £

Two fit for words! Euro Auto Challenge Two very fit gentlemen each undertook separate events to raise money for New- port branch. Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Chamberlain, a pupil at Rougemont School, completed a sponsored cycle ride from Newport to Southampton and raised £220. He also persuaded Sea Link to donate two ferry tickets to his fundraising drive. Jeremy later presented the cash and tickets to Mrs Daphne Patrick, chairman of New- port branch committee. Mr Bewg, 52, ran the veteran road runners national championships full marathon last October in a time of 3 hours 34 minutes. Sponsorship money from this run and two previous half marathons has totalled £1,000. Splendid fundraising achievements from both gentlemen. Lymington lifeboat crew member Falcon out through mechanical failure or fatigue Hawkins, together with three friends, and Falcon and his co-drivers (one of raised £2,200 in sponsorship money for only three amateur teams taking part) Doctor in the swim the RNLI by taking part in the 1992 Euro finished 19th out of 36 overall and 9th out A sponsored swim by Doctor Richard Auto Challenge organised by the Euro- of 16 in the men's class. Walton from Porthgwarra Cove, Land's pean newspaper. They hope to take part in this year's End to Lamorna Cove, a distance of 5.2 In an attempt to establish a new world challenge which will involve an even miles, resulted in an amazing £3,500 for record for driving in the shortest time longer route - through Russia. the Institution. through the 12 member countries of the Pictured are the four drivers (from left Doctor Walton from Windsor, an ex- EC, Falcon's team, driving a Vauxhall to right) Falcon Hawkins, Vic Perfitt and perienced middle-distance sea swimmer, Carlton 3-litre GS, started the rally in his two sons Raoul and Jason outside the was accompanied by a safety boat and Paris on 27 September and completed the Lymington boathouse, together with the completed the swim in 2 hours 50 minutes challenge a week later in London. rally car and Lymington's Atlantic 21 last September. Twenty-nine of the entrants dropped lifeboat, Frank and Mary Atkinson. Message in a bottle In Brief During 1992 Fergus Bolger, newly ap- pointed chairman of Arklow branch launched himself off to local primary A BUFFET dance, held at Tolworth last Oc- and Redhill branch area, persuaded one of tober thanks to the generosity of Michael their number to have his head shaved to help schools to spread the word about the Fletcher who again arranged the venue and the lifeboats. Sponsorship and a collection lifeboat service, with special emphasis on provided the flowers and food, raised £1,570 raised over £240. Arklow lifeboat. for Surbiton branch. THE IMPRESSIVE Great Hall at Bisham Ab- It was during his question-and-answer INSPECTION of the old minute book of Hull bey was the setting for Beaconsf ield branch's sessions with the schoolchildren that ladies' guild has confirmed that the guild has Trafalgar Night Dinner. As a result of the Fergus thought up the idea of a 'message been raising money for 40 years. Last year generosity of members and supporters the in a bottle' competition - pupils would the sale of souvenirs and various events lifeboat service will benefit to the tune of put their own message in a bottle which ranging from a bridge lunch, a young peo- £1,600. ple's ball, coffee mornings and donations DURING the 1991/92 financial year Ken- would then be launched from Arklow. raised over £5,680. sington branch registered a record breaking The winner would be the 'owner' of the A PUNCH party at the Villa Rothsay Hotel total of over £21,000. This included a mag- bottle which was retrieved the furthest (by kind permission of the Ankers family) in nificent £9,256 collected in Lifeboat Week. distance from Arklow. November raised £739 for Cowes ladies' guild DESPITE the recession the RNLI Christmas For an entry fee of 50p each child from the sale of tickets, raffles and an auction shop in Ramsey, Isle of Man took £5,602 in its completed a message form and when the of a book and a doll. 12 days of trading. It was manned by a hard bottles had been collected (70 in all) they working rota of ladies from the Ramsey guild THE Coleraine/Castlerock branch is going were launched but to sea during a lifeboat from strength to strength and, together with who were very fortunate to be lent a vacant other successful fundraising efforts, the shop in a prime position through the courtesy exercise. Stableford competititon held at Castlerock of the owner, Barrie Jones. One week later the first replies came golf club raised a splendid £2,821. TERRY Hall's stop-smoking sponsorship has back from Rosslare, but as time passed GRAHAM Moates and Justin Hawkins, resulted in a grand total of £550. Terry replies came from further afield and hydrographic surveyors at Wimpol of Swin- (Nobby) of the City of Derby branch has Suzanne Byrne was the lucky youngster don, cycled the entire distance from John donated £150 of this amount to the RNLI. whose bottle had travelled the greatest O'Groats to Land's End and raised £1,008.30 DURING 1992 Mrs Joan Getty made ar- distance - all the way to Black Rock Beach, rangements for Bangor ladies' guild to sell for the lifeboat service. Averaging 55 miles a in Brighton, Sussex. day it took the two men 18 days to complete souvenirs to members of East Down yacht the journey. club and Pat McCarroll, chairman of the Suzanne's prize was £10 and a visit to REGULARS at The Greyhound Inn, Reigate guild, is most grateful for the £940 raised. Arklow lifeboat house to meet the cox-

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The big break Instant test An emergency call interrupted a presen- tation ceremony at Hunstanton lifeboat station and those present were given a live demonstration of the crew in action. Biggleswade Round Tablers had raised £1,000 from a sponsored row on the River Ouse in September and the members of the inshore lifeboat crew were about to show off their new waterproof suits which the money had bought when they had to launch the lifeboat to rescue a windsurfer who was trying to swim to the shore off Hunstanton lighthouse. The lifeboat reached him within six minutes and brought him safely back to shore, cold and exhausted but otherwise unharmed.

Wine quiz The village hall in Henf ield, West Sussex was the venue for a wine quiz evening organised by the local branch. Nicholas White, aged 19, an indefatigable Sponsored by donations on a 'get-as- The quiz master was Charles Metcalfe, fundraiser for the Ivybridge and district far-as-you-can' simulated break-out from a wine expert from the Homes and Gar- branch, is pictured outside No. 10 Down- Channings Wood prison in south Devon, dens magazine and the presenter of a ing Street at the end of his latest money- Nick managed to get as far as Derby in 24 television wine programme. One hun- spinning venture. hours. It would have been further - to the dred and forty people attended and were continent - but for a bomb scare in central seated in tens at tables. They were then London which delayed his journey and asked to sample eight different wines In Brief led to him missing his flight from during the course of the evening. After Heathrow. each wine Charles Metcalfe asked three SINCE Beckenham branch was re-formed four Nevertheless Nick managed to meet up questions relating to each wine and marks years ago its five committee members have with BBC Radio One's Tommy Vance, were awarded for a correct answer. organised a variety of events, including a coffee Dave Lee Travis and Philip Schofield and As the evening progressed the at- party whichraised £846 in one-and-a-half hours. The branch also sold over £460 worth of Christ- also enlisted the support of John mosphere became more 'relaxed' but the mas cards. Stapleton, presenter of 'Watchdog'. competition grew fiercer. Indeed, going THANKS to the Walthamstow newspapers into the last round of questions two tables Guardian and Gazette target bonds scheme, tied for first place and it took three tie- 24,350 bonds worth £315 were collected by Singing along for the RNLI break questions before a winner was members of the Loughton and district branch. No fewer than eleven members of The declared. All concerned then agreed to The money will be used to buy a full set of Sheringham Shantymen are past or share the first prize - a case of quality protective equipment (waterproof trousers, present members of the RNLI, and with wine donated by King and Barnes jacket, boots and lifejacket) for a crew member on the Cromer all-weather lifeboat. another three auxiliary coastguards in Brewery, who also supplied the wine for ANOTHER successful year was reported at the their ranks it is hardly surprising that the the quiz, AGM of the North Sunderland ladies' guild. RNLI figures highly as a beneficiary of At the conclusion of the quiz each The harbour fete raised £ 10,644 and sales in the their efforts. participant received more wine together shop realised £18,984 and these, together with The money which they raise from with a selection of 22 cheeses. Needless the results of other events, enabled the guild to performances and from the sale of their to say everyone agreed the whole event send a record £29,000 to the Institution in 1992. audio tape (a second is due out later this had been an enormous success, raising MORE than 400 teenagers bopped the night year) goes to charity - and 10% of that is some £913 for Henfield branch. away at the Twelfth Night Ball organised by Glasgow North branch at the Forte Crest Hotel. destined for the RNLI. A mixture of Scottish country dancing and disco Their second year of operation resulted The last and the first at this very successful event realised a net amount in the RNLI receiving £400, and with the December 1992 saw Hitchin and district of £5,940.83. new tape on the way hopes are even branch holding its last fundraising event THE CUAN Bar in Strangford, County Down higher for the next year of shanty-singing. of the year - the annual punch, pies and held its annual New Year's Day swim, attracting The Sheringham Shantymen can be carols evening at Mr and Mrs John 33 entrants and raising over £1,000 for contacted via their Vice Chairman and Perkins' tithe barn. Over 300 prizes were Banbridge branch. Press Officer, Tony Sadler, 10 Hooks Hill donated for the tombola and a magnificent THE COFFERS of Bishop's Waltham branch were unexpectedly swelled by £75 which was Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8NL, £700 was raised as a result of this very handed to them by a young naval officer. He had who can also arrange for the sale of their popular event. won a private bet and then decided to donate his tapes - which are £6 each including post The first event in 1993, an afternoon winnings to the RNLI. The total amount raised and packing. Cheques should be made tea, took place on a very cold day in by the branch last year was over £7,000. payable to The Sheringham Shantymen'. Church House, raising just over £100.

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A good start Head on at Newbiggin! Nuneaton and District branch started the new fundraising year with a flag day in 11 the town centre. A good turnout of committee, mem- bers and local Round Tablers enabled a 33-strong rota of collectors to be out and about during the day resulting in a splendid collection of £1,052.28. Mrs Jenny Bates and Margaret James manned the charity stall in the market place and sold £139.40 worth of souvenirs, as well as making £129.20 on a raffle - resulting in a grand total for the day of £1,320.88.

Dynamic duo __... THOUSAND. At the end of January 1993, T. Robert Wieck (22) and Rachel Wieck (18) per- HUNDRED AND IH1R formed a recital of piano and viola music 'POUNDS at Edington Priory Church. The audience was treated to a selection of short solo and duo pieces, including Newbiggin lifeboat station is situated his grandfather James Dent was a crew music by Ravel, Brahms, Mozart and within the area of Wansbeck district member of the lifeboat in the early 1900's Faure, as well as two pieces composed by council, and it is the custom for the civic and his uncle Thomas Dent was a cox- Robert himself. head of the council to nominate a charity swain of the Augustus and Laura and its Robert and Rachel raised the grand appeal during his year of office. During replacement the Richard Ashley. Not sur- sum of £330 for Westbury branch, and are 1991/92 the duty of civic head fell to prising therefore that Jack chose the RNLI available to do similar concerts elsewhere Councillor Jack Dodds of Newbiggin. for his nominated charity. to raise money for the RNLI. Jack is from an old Newbiggin family, During his year in office he organised many fundraising events and a total of £6,334 was finally raised and presented Little Treasures! to Newbiggin branch. After raiding their toy Pictured with Jack (centre) are John cupboards and ward- Robinson, chairman of Newbiggin branch robes Amy Bromilow, (left) and Stan Green, station honorary left, aged eight, and her secretary. sister Rebecca, aged ten, held a jumble sale out- Christmas shopping spree! side their home in The Christmas shop manned by members Stoneclough, raising of the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton la- £80.63 for Farnworth dies' guild for just seven weeks, resulted and Kearsley branch of in an astounding total sales figure of which their father, £31,882.40. Michael, is a committee member. In at the deep end Photo courtesy Bolton Two retired businessmen from Ross-on- Evening News Wye dived in to the Wye Lea Leisure Centre pool - and raised £319 in spon- sorship money as part of the Swimsafe 92 appeal. Bill Petts (67), who has a replacement hip, swam an impressive 50 miles and collected £180. Stuart Rosser (66) topped it up with £139 by completing 17 miles. The swim was completed over a period of ten weeks.

The Fundraisers jopv to ap this section of the .Summer 1993 issue of Tin- LIN-BOAT is 24 May 1993

30 People and Places around and about the RNLI

Obituaries In the Driving Seat!

With deep regret we record the following deaths: NOVEMBER 1992 Captain J.F. Kersley, station honorary secretary of Queensferry lifeboat from 1967 to 1992. He was awarded a Gold badge in 1988. Mrs Edith Townend, founder member of the reformed Bridlington ladies' guild in 1946, she held continuous office and was vice president when she died. Mrs Townend was awarded a Silver badge in 1957, a Gold badge in 1968 and a bar to the Gold badge in 1984. DECEMBER 1992 Mrs 'Freddie' Downing, a long standing member of the Central London Committee and treasurer for the past 11 years. John Edmunds, coxswain of Hastings lifeboat from 1961 to 1971. He joined the crew in the 1940's and served as bowman from 1960 until his appointment as cox- Malcolm Grant, the winner of the Volvo Kent; Mrs S. Kennedy, Coventry, West swain. 440 Li car which was first prize in the Midlands; R. Kidd, Didcot, Oxon; Mrs. Mrs Irene Watson, chairman of Hedon RNLI's 60th national lottery owes his S. Humphreys, Great Yarmouth, ladies' guild. She was founder secretary in thanks to comedian Billy Burden, who Norfolk. £50 - R. Middleton, Lowestoft, 1966 and was awarded a Silver badge in drew his winning ticket. The popular Suffolk; Mrs M. Hanson, Chellaston, 1980 and a Gold badge in 1989. comedian, who was curently appearing Derby; Miss I.E. Honeyball, Charlton, JANUARY 1993 as Mr Moulterd in the BBC TV series London; Mrs J.R. Harris, Birkenhead, Edgar Moore, coxswain of Newhaven lifeboat from 1962 to 1977. He joined the 'Grace and Favour' at the time drew all Merseyside; Mrs J. Perry, Thames crew in 1945, was bowman from 1946 to the winning tickets on Sunday 31 Ditton, Surrey. 1954 and then served as second coxswain January 1993 at Volvo until his appointment as coxswain in 1962. agents Page Motors of Gerald 'Farmer/ Edwards, coxswain of Poole. Angle lifeboat from 1981 to 1993. He had The draw, which raised joined the crew in 1961 and was awarded a over £159,00, was super- long service badge in 1986. vised by Anthony Oliver, R.J. Suckling, vice chairman of Bognor Regis branch. He joined the committee in deputy head of 1967 and received the Institution's statuette fundraising and marketing in 1990. and the prize winners FEBRUARY 1993 were: David Foreman, station honorary secre- Volvo 440 Li car- Malcolm tary for Whitstable lifeboat from 1986 to Grant, Cardiff. 1993. £500 - Mrs Z.P. Johnson- (Top) Malcolm Grant (centre left), the winner of the James Fitzgerald, coxswain of Baltimore Walker, Frimley, Surrey. £250 - H. lifeboat from 1965 to 1972. After joining the Volvo in the RNLI's 60th national lottery with his Overfield, Hampton Hill, Middx. £100 - wife Margaret (centre right) at the handing over crew in 1940 he served as bowman from ceremony in Cardiff. Photo Barry Webb 1953 to 1960, and as second coxswain from Miss M.H. Hamman, Worsley, Man- (Above) Comedian Billy Burden draws the winning 1960 to 1965 until his appointment as cox- chester; Mrs E. Tumber, Whitstable, tickets at Page Motors in Poole.

February 1993. We regret that only lifeboat coxswains On Station Clogherhead - Mersey 12-31 (ON 1190) and branch and guild officials with a The following lifeboats have taken up Doris Bleasdale on 3 March 1993. minimum of 10 years service can be station and relief fleet duties: INSHORE accepted for inclusion in the Obitu- ALL-WEATHER Relief - B592 Ernest Armstrong on 28 aries column in THE LIFEBOAT. Kilmore Quay - Mersey 12-28 (ON November 1992. Details of the death of branch and 1187) Mary Margaret on 2 December Relief - D437 Jill Gatti on 1 January guild members should be passed to 1992. 1993. the appropriate regional office, which Relief - Mersey 12-30 (ON1189) Her Relief - D439 Phyllis Mary on 1 January will then forward the information to Majesty The Queen on 25 January 1993. 1993. the editor. Berwick-on-Tweed - Mersey 12-32 Kilkeel - B593 Valerie Hull on 27 (ON 1191) Joy and Charles Beeby on 5 January 1993. 31 People and Places around and about the RNLI

A Night to Remember The BBC's series '999' portrays the Portaferry's Atlantic 21 activities of the emergency services, Blue Peter V, with two ambulance crew aboard, and one of the five teams employed to takes part in the night- research and film reconstructions of the time filming for the rescue operations descended on BBC's '999' series. Portaferry, Northern Ireland, at the end Photo Colin Watson of October 1992. Their aim was to reconstruct and film the events of a night in June when the lifeboat and medical services joined forces to rescue three victims of a high speed collision in Strangford Lough. Filming was carried out over four nights and involved a number of representatives from the lifeboat and ambulance services. The station's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V was involved New Year Honours Long Service Badges throughout the period and the crew Her Majesty the Queen has honoured The Long Service Badge for crew played an important role in the filming. the following crew member for his members and shore helpers who have Powerful lighting and other filming services to the RNLI in this year's New given active service for 20 years or equipment was set up each night and Year Honours: more has been awarded to: the rigid inflatable boat involved in the Ralph Brunton MBE, mechanic at Appledore - Tractor driver R.L. Fisher accident was floated onto the wreck at Dunbar lifeboat station was awarded Filey - Second assistant mechanic B.W. high tide before the night's filming. the British Empire Medal. Jenkinson It seemed as though everything was Awards for achievements not directly Fowey - Crew member P. Barren filmed half a dozen times from half a connected with the Institution's work Humber - Crew member S. Rollinson dozen angles but gradually the various but to people associated with the RNLI Ilfracombe - Assistant mechanic R. pieces came together, covering the are: Thompson various aspects of the night's events Sir Malcolm Arnold, Knight Bachelor, Kilmore Quay - Crew members D. from the sounding of pagers to the composer (and composer of the Culleton, J. Hayes hospitalization of the casualties. Padstow Lifeboat March). Littlehampton - Crew member G.J. Frederick Everard, CBE, president, Warminger Chamber of Shipping and chairman F T Mallaig - Crew member H.R. Mackenzie Propper job Everard & Sons Ltd. Oban - Coxswain/mechanic J.P. In October 1940 a Handley Page Mrs Molly Evans, MBE for services to Maclean, crew members D.M. Graham, Hampden bomber was shot down near the public and to the community on M.J. Robertson, D. Robertson, D.W. Skegness, and although the lifeboat was Anglesey (member and supporter of Scott launched no survivors were found. the Llangefni branch). Pwllheli - Coxswain/mechanic B. The lifeboat mechanic at the time Lynn David, BEM, lock keeper at Green, assistant tractor driver D. Jones, was the late father of the present day Abingdon (chairman and secretary of tractor driver M. Dop station honorary secretary, J. Grunnill, the Days Lock Island branch). Selsey - Assistant head launcher J.D. who was a helper at the station. Miss Catrina Gillies, BEM, sub Hutchinson Fifty-two years later, in September postmistress Cromarty sub post office Sheringham - Crew member D. Mann 1992, the station's Mersey Lincolnshire (president of the Cromarty ladies' Valentia - Assistant mechanic J.A. Poacher was returning from exercise guild). Murphy when the crew spotted an obstruction - like a sword standing about a metre above the surface. They considered it a hazard to the station's inshore lifeboat All members and supporters of the RNLI will be saddened to hear of two and took the station's Talus tractor to tragedies within the space of a week involving members of the Padstow lifeboat the spot at low tide and managed to get crew. a line on it. Pulling it ashore they were In the first incident on 23 November 1992 lifeboat crew member Neil surprised to find that it was a propeller Harding was one of two people to lose their lives when a small fishing vessel unit, in quite good condition. RAF was lost, and just six days later a 26ft fishing vessel foundered with the loss of experts confirmed that it was a propel- three further lives. Among them were lifeboat crew member Peter Hope and ler from the plane shot down in 1940 deputy second coxswain Paul Masters. and it now forms an interesting exhibit Everyone connected with the lifeboat service will wish to join us in express- in the station's new boathouse. ing our heartfelt condolences to family and friends in the close-knit community.

32 AWARDS TO COXSWAINS, CREW MEMBERS AND SHORE HELPERS 1992 The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension. Service in Inshore Lifeboats is shown by an asterix.

Aberystwyth: K. Stone, Crew Member Fowey: B.T. Giles, Crew Member Portaferry: E.H. Brown, Crew Member* 5 years, Crew Member* 25 '/2 years. 13 years. 11 years. Amble: J. Connell, Coxswain 19V2 Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: J.V. Pwllheli: B. Green, Coxswain/Me- years, Second Coxswain 5V2 years, Everson, Crew Member* 10V2 years, chanic 2 years, Second Coxswain/ Bowman 5 years, Crew Member 9 Crew Member 1 month. Mechanic 1V2 years, Shore Second years. J. Stewart, Crew Member 30 Hartlepool: R.N. Maiden BEM, Cox- Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic 3V2 years, Crew Member* 11V2 years. swain 14V2 years, Second Coxswain 1 years, Assistant Mechanic 7 years, Anstruther: G.W. Gourlay, Shore year, Bowman 6 months, Crew Member Second Assistant Mechanic 2 years, Helper 30 years. 5]/2 years, Crew Member* 8 years, Crew Member 13 years, Crew Member* Arklow: B. Riley, Crew Member Shore Helper 5 years. 211/2 years. 25 years. Hastings: F.A. Harffey, Shore Helper 62 Ramsgate: R.F. Blay, Bowman 6 years, Beaumaris: D.W. Gallichan, Coxswain years. R. White, Head Launcher 48 Crew Member 27 years. W. A. Blay, 11 years, Second Coxswain 6 years, years, Shore Helper 14 years. Crew Member 31V2 years, Crew Crew Member 17 years, Crew Member* Helensburgh: M.W. Roberts, Crew Member* 15V2 years. 22 years. Member* 11V2 years. Redcar: P.W. Hodge, Crew Member* 12 Bembridge: T.D. Ebsworth, Second Hunstanton: A.J. Clarke, Crew Mem- years, Crew Member 3V2 years Coxswain/Mechanic 2 years, Mechanic ber* 13 years. St Agnes: P.J. O'Reilly, Crew Member* 8 months, Crew Member 4 years, Crew Ilfracombe: D.W.G. Clemence, Cox- 14 years, Shore Helper l'/2 years. Member* 10V2 years, Boat Mechanic swain 19V2 years, Second Coxswain 4 Sheerness: M.E. Keen, Crew Member (Clovelly) 3 months, Crew Member months, Crew Member 18 years. 23 years, Crew Member* 12V2 years. (Dover) 10'/2 years. A.J. Etheridge, The Lizard: N.M. Hill, Crew Member Sheringham: T.R. Holsey, Second Crew Member 14V2 years. I. Kersley, 12V2 years. Coxswain 3 years, Crew Member 281/2 Crew Member 11 years. Lyme Regis: A. Archer-Thomson, Crew years. D.F. Mann, Assistant Mechanic 5 Blyth: T. Moss, Coxswain 4V2 years, Member* 9 years, Shore Helper years, Crew member 9 years, Shore Second Coxswain 6 years, Crew 17 V2 years. Helper 8 years. P.J. Scotter, Crew Member 10V2 years. Mallaig: H.R. MacKenzie, Crew Member 20 years D. Williams, Crew Borth: R.J. Davies, Crew Member* Member 21'/2 years. T. Ralston JP, Member 27 years.. 25I/2 years. Coxswain/Mechanic 6 years, Second Southend: D.M. Clark, Crew Member* Bridlington: H.E. Dean, Crew Member Coxswain/Mechanic 3'/2 years, 26 years. R.T. Fossett, Crew Member 6 years, Crew Member* 12 years, Mechanic 18 years, Crew Member 6'/2 years, Crew Member* 21V2 years. Assistant Tractor Driver 15V2 years. 7 V2 years. D. Goodbourne, Crew Member* 10 Broughty Ferry: A.E. Munro, Crew Mudeford: B. Stride, Crew Member* years. Member 27 V2 years, Crew Member* 15 years. Stromness: J. Adams, Assistant Me- 18V2 years H. Scott, Second Coxswain New Quay: D.M. Davies, Crew Mem- chanic 8V2 years, Crew Member 20 23V2 years, Crew Member 8 months, ber 24 years. M. Davies, Crew Member years. E.H Sinclair, Acting Coxswain Crew Member* 13V2 years. 18 years, Shore Helper 1 year. E.I. 1V2 years, Second Coxswain 7 years, Calshot: M.A. Roper, Coxswain 1 year, Evans, Second Coxswain 261/2 years, Crew Member 7 years. Second Coxswain 6 years, Crew Crew Member 4 years, Crew Member* Tenby: M.O. Wilson, Second Coxswain Member 7V2 years. 5 years, Tractor Driver Helper 1V2 2 years, Crew Member 30V2 years. Campbeltown: A.G. Gilchrist, Cox- years. E.F. Swan, Head Launcher and Teesmouth: A. Dawkins, Crew Mem- swain/Mechanic 14 years, Second Tractor Driver 18 years, Tractor Driver ber 8'/2 years, Shore Helper Coxswain/Mechanic 4 years, Mechanic Helper 1 year, Shore Helper 7 V2 years. 4 years. 10V2 years. Tighnabruaich: J.B. Wilson, Crew Clacton: D.C. Mantripp, Crew Member North Sunderland: R.C.D. Douglas Member* 10'/2 years. 6V2 years, Crew Member* 18V2 years, BEM, Coxswain 21V2 years, Second Troon: S.D. Seaward, Emergency Shore Helper 1V2 years. Coxswain 4 years, Bowman l'/2 years, Mechanic 9 years, Crew Member Clogher Head: E. Tuite, Assistant Crew Member 9 years. B.J. Graham, 5]/2 years. Tractor Driver 41 years Crew Member 34 years, Crew Member* Valentia: J.A. Murphy (posthumous), Cullercoats: A. Fergusson, Crew 7'/2 years. A.C. Mode, Crew Member Assistant Mechanic 19V2 years, Crew Member* 13V2 years. 14 years. Member 91/2 years. Exmouth: C.I. Douglas, Crew Member Penarth: M.D. Bailey, Crew Member* Walmer: P.S. Johnson, Crew Member 6 7 years, Crew Member* 12 years 11 years. M.R. Hill, Crew Member* years, Crew Member* 6 years, Shore Falmouth: G.K. Pearce, Assistant 11V2 years. Helper 7 years. Mechanic 10V2 years, Crew Member 3 Plymouth: R.G. Jago BEM, Emergency Wells: A. Warner, Assistant Mechanic 1/2 years, Crew Member* 2V2 years. Mechanic 4 years, Crew Member 21 7'/2 years, Crew Member 22 years, Fishguard: N.J. Murrow (posthumous), years, Crew Member* l3l/2 years. M.R. Crew Member (Cromer) 5 years. Mechanic 15 years, Assistant Mechanic Smaldon, Emergency Mechanic 3V2 Whitby: J.R. Harland, Bowman 7 V2 14 years, Crew Member 6 years. years, Crew Member 91/2 years. years, Crew Member 4 years.

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