Lifeboat Fund Chair guest at Royal Naming Ceremony

Lifeboat Fund Chair, Sir Peter Housden, was delighted to attend a Royal Naming Ceremony on 11 August 2011 at South Queensferry - Scotland's busiest lifeboat station.  HRH The Duke of Edinburgh performed the ceremony, naming the Jimmie Cairncross, a new Atlantic 85 (B-Class) lifeboat.  Another guest of the RNLI was Carole Barker-Munro, whose marathon team raised an incredible sum of over £2,100 for The Lifeboat Fund last May.  It was a great occasion in spite of inclement weather!

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I support The Lifeboat Fund

Laura Turney of Scottish Government's Culture Division told us - 

"I support the Fund because my great grandfather, John Harrison Cammish, died whilst serving on the Scarborough lifeboat.

"Late afternoon on the 8th December 1954, in horrendous weather, after successfully escorting a number of fishing boats into...

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