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News & Events January
2005 to August 2005 |
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Donation from Farnborough
Masonic Club |
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On Sunday 28th August the Steward from the
Farnborough Masonic Club, Geoff Andrews and
his wife Beryl visited the station with members of the Club to present the Hayling
Island RNLI lifeboat station with a cheque
for £1,000. |
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Lifeboat Station Open Day
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On
Sunday 21st August crowds of
people gathered on the beach by
the RNLI station throughout the
day enjoying the sunshine and
the calm waters of Chichester
Harbour and enjoyed the Open
Day. Visitors to the lifeboat
station had the opportunity to
look around the Operations Room,
meet the voluntary lifeboat crew
and look over the lifeboats.
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Throughout the day the lifeboat
shore crew showed the visitors
how the lifeboats are launched
across the beach using specially
adapted tractors and the boat
crew demonstrated the
manoeuvrability of these inshore
lifeboats and performed “man
overboard” exercises. |
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Emsworth Quay Sale |
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On
Saturday 20th August the Hayling
Island lifeboats attended the
Emsworth Quay Sale which was a
fund raising event organised by
the local RNLI branch. Selsey
RNLI lifeboat also visited the
event. |
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Just a Training Exercise! |
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Lifeboat crew from Hayling Island
were the casualties in a recent
training exercise with Portsmouth
RNLI crew. Ian, Jasper, Mark and
Andy were made up to look like
casualties with injuries that
could have been sustained if a
battery on a boat had exploded.
Trevor Pearce was the "make-up
artists" who produced these life
like injuries.
More picture -
Warning -
Do not look if you are of a
delicate nature! |
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Dell
Quay Festival of Sail |
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The
Atlantic lifeboat, whilst out on a
routine training exercise, visited
the Dell Quay Festival of Sail on
Saturday 9th July. |
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Thanks
to Sue Roach for the pictures |
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Guides &
Brownies |
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A group
of Brownies and Guides from
Rowlands Castle visited Hayling Island
on 7th July and had a tour of the
lifeboat station. |
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Dunannie School |
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A group of
18 children with their parents and
teachers from Dunannie School
visited the lifeboat station on Wednesday
22nd June and watched the lifeboats
launched on a routine training exercises. |
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Northney
Marina Sea Safety Day |
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The
Hayling Island lifeboats visited
Northney Marina's Sea Safety Day on
Saturday 11th June. The RNLI's
Sea Safety mobile unit attended the
event and flare demonstrations were
held. A number of SEA Checks were
carried out on vessels in the
marina. |
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New D
Class lifeboat "Amanda, James & Ben" |
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New D
Class lifeboat for station |
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A Naming
Ceremony and Service of Dedication
was held on Sunday 22nd May at
Hayling Island Lifeboat Station for
the new D Class lifeboat.
Neighbouring RNLI lifeboat Stations
attended the event along with other
friends and supporters of the
station.
[more
info] |
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Thank to
R Mumford for the pictures |
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RNLI
Lifeboats from Selsey, Bembridge,
Portsmouth & Hayling Island |
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The crew would like to thank the
Langstone Harbour Licensed Boatman's
Association who visited the station on
Wednesday 25th May and and presented £500
to the RNLI.
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Morden WI |
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A
Group of ladies from the Morden WI
and their guests
visited the station on
Friday 20th May and had a tour of
the station and watched the
lifeboats launch on exercise. |
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Cub
Scouts visit station |
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The 3rd
Hayling Cub Scout Group (Saturn
Pack) visited the lifeboat station
on Monday 16th May. The Cubs had the
opportunity to look on the lifeboats
and they were shown the special
clothing and equipment worn by the
lifeboat crew. Before they left they
were given a short talk about beach
safety. |
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Bikers
visit station |
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Two
bikers, Martin & Chris, are planning
to visit 164 RNLI stations around
the mainland coast of the UK in 16
days. On 12th May, on day one of
their trip, they visited Hayling
Island. |
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For more information log on to
www.justgiving.com/RNLItrip |
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Manhood
RNLI Fundraising Branch Presentation |
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At their
AGM on 11th May, Mrs Clover, Hon
Treasurer of Manhood RNLI
Fundraising Branch, presented a
cheque for £11.975.67 to Hayling
Island Lifeboat Station which was
accepted on behalf of the station by
Gil Carter, DLA . This was 50% of
the sum raised by the branch in
2004. The same amount was also
presented to Selsey RNLI station. |
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Rogation
Sunday |
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On 1st
May a number of boats went round
Hayling Island for Rogation Sunday.
Their first stop was at Hayling
Island Lifeboat Station where
Station's Chaplain, Rev Mary Thomas,
conducted a short service. |
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New
Chaplain for Station |
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Rev Mary
Thomas, who is Minister of the
United Reform Church, South Hayling,
has been appointed by the RNLI as
Chaplain at Hayling Island Lifeboat
Station . |
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“Chernobyl
Children Life Line”. |
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Sixteen
Russian children staying with families in
the Petersfield area organised through the
“Chernobyl
Children Life Line” charity, visited
the lifeboat station on Wednesday
30th March and watched the lifeboats
launched on exercise. Earlier they
had enjoyed supper at Hayling Island
Sailing Club. |
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This is the
twelfth year running that a group of
children from Chernobyl has visited
Hayling Island. During their
four week stay in the UK the
children have a full programme of
activities. They are encouraged to
eat healthily with lots of fresh
fruit, milk and vegetables to boost
their immune system. The children
come from an area in Russia which
still remains heavily contaminated
from the nuclear fall-out after the
explosion at Chernobyl on 26th
April 1986. |
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"Little
Seeds" visit |
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A group
of members of the Southampton
"Self Educated Education Days "
visited the lifeboat station on the
18th March for one of their
educational visits. |
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Vandals smash their
way into Hayling Island Lifeboat Station
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Lifeboat
crew on Hayling Island were shocked
to find that their lifeboat station
had been broken into on Thursday
morning 10 March. The cost of
replacing the equipment and
repairing the damage will be around
£5,000. |
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Thieves
smashed a ground-floor window into
the crew room only to find bars
prevented entry. They then forced
their way through a small window in
the main door. |
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Handheld
VHF radios were taken and collecting
boxes in the station's museum were
smashed and the contents taken.
Fortunately these are emptied
regularly so only small amounts of
cash were taken, but most of the
money taken would have been from
young children who regularly put
their pennies in the collecting
boxes when they visit the lifeboat
station. |
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Picture
of type or radios stolen |
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One crew member
said, "Lives are put at risk when vital
equipment is stolen. We depend on the
hand-held radios to talk directly to other
boats when out on call-outs. |
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"The RNLI also relies on voluntary
contributions and fundraisers around the
country work hard to raise money to buy
equipment for the lifeboats and this is
particularly upsetting for a charity. The
lifeboat station is like a second home to us
and we take such an incident very
personally". |
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Many of the
lifeboat crew had been at the station on
Wednesday evening when both lifeboats were
launched as part of a routine training
exercise. The station was locked up later
that night. Thankfully the lifeboats were
left undamaged but all the voluntary
lifeboat crew were upset that a vital-life
saving service should be targeted in this
way. |
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Measures have now been taken
to make sure that the lifeboat station is
even more secure.
Anyone who has any information about this
incident should contact the local police on
Tel: 0845 0454545 |
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"Little
Cockles" visit station |
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Thirty small children
and toddlers visited Hayling Island
lifeboat station with their parents and watched one of
the trainee voluntary lifeboat crew
demonstrating how to put on the
protective clothing and safety gear
she is required to wear in the
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The young visitors were
taking part in the “Little Cockles”
walk along the shoreline on Wednesday
16th February, which was
organised by Chichester Harbour
Conservancy. They arrived at the
lifeboat station with their buckets
full of shells and pebbles collected
from the beach and after looking
around the operations room, they all
enjoyed the opportunity to sit in the
D Class lifeboat. |
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Wargave
RNLI Fundraising Branch |
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The RNLI relies on
voluntary donations in order to run
and maintain a vital 24/7 life
saving service at sea. There are
hundreds of RNLI fundraising
branches who work hard to raise
funds for the RNLI even though many
of them may be many miles from the
sea. One such branch is at Wargrave
in Berkshire where a dedicated group
of fundraisers ran tombola stalls
specifically to raise money to buy
Hayling Island Lifeboat Station a
Navtex [an electronic navigation and
weather reporting system]. On Sunday
13th February the
Wargrave RNLI Fundraising committee
formally handed over the equipment
to the lifeboat crew at Hayling
Island. |
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Crew
presentations |
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On 4th
February Evan Lamperd was presented
with a Service Certificate from
the RNLI. Evan, who joined the RNLI
in 1986 retired from the crew last
year after 18½
years service. |
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On the
same evening at Mengeham Rythe
Sailing Club, Crewman, John Trapmore
and his wife Suzanne were presented
with a gift from the crew following
their recent wedding. |
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Evan
Lamperd [right] with his father
Paddy Lamperd |
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John &
Suzanne Trapmore
with their son Patrick |
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Chris
Price, from RNLI Head Office,
presented Graham Raines MBE with a
long service certificate at Hayling
Island Sailing Club on Saturday 22nd
January. Graham retired from the
boat crew in August 2004 after 28
years but will continue his
voluntary activities with Hayling
Island Lifeboat Station as part of
the shore crew and the D Class
lifeboat. mechanic. |
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Langstone
Cutter Rowing Club presented the RNLI
with a cheque for £1,223.80 on Sunday
9th January. The money was raised when
the club took part in the 2004 "Great River Race"
on the Thames
rowing from
Ham to Canary Wharf. The cheque
was presented to Nigel Roper, Lifeboat
Operations Manager, Hayling Island, by
Les Plater, Chairman of LCRC. Lifeboat
crew, Ian Fiddaman (Helm), Andy Peasley
and Scott Peters, who were on a training
exercise in Chichester Harbour, attended the
presentation in the D Class lifeboat "Leonard
Steadman". |
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