82 SPONSORED BY PREMIER NOSS ON DART
NEWS FROM DART RNLI By Dominic Hart, Dart RNLI Press Officer
200-year scroll at the Dartmouth station. John Fenton, Tracey Lucas and Yorkie Lomas represented the team at the Dart lifeboat to mark the historic anniversary of the lifesaving charity. The scroll, bearing the RNLI
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pledge, is being passed through RNLI communities – lifeboat stations, lifeguard units and fundraising branches – around the UK and Ireland and being signed by representatives at around 240 locations. Tracey has been volunteer manager of the RNLI Dartmouth Visitor Centre since it started in 2015, and was delighted to have added her name. Tracey, who also attended the 200-year special service at Westminster Abbey in March, said: “It was a great privilege to be asked to have been invited to Westminster and the signing of the 200-year anniversary pledge scroll. Two hundred years is a great landmark. “The RNLI means so much to the people of Dartmouth, and we have a fantastic team of volunteers in the visitor centre, as well as those crew members and shore crew who go out to sea to save lives. “The RNLI Visitor Centre is a
focal point on the Dartmouth Embankment, helping to raise
hree Dart lifeboat volunteers were honoured to sign the commemorative
money for the new Dart Lifeboat Station. It’s a busy place and we’re always on the look out for extra volunteers. Please drop in if you’re interested in helping such a worthy cause.” John was instrumental in the campaign to reopen Dart RNLI in 2007. Without his tireless efforts, the station may never have materialised. John, who has volunteered in
“Dart RNLI has been a big part of my life, so to add my name to the 200-year scroll was quite an honour,”
Above: Dart RNLI volunteers John Fenton (L), Tracey
Lucas and Yorkie Lomas with the 200th anniversary commemorative scroll.
on March 4, at the
Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey, where it was signed by
education, fundraising, and as a press officer at Dart, said: “Dart RNLI has been a big part of my life, so to add my name to the 200-year scroll was quite an honour,” he said. “I clearly remember the days when we were working to get Dart up and running. It gives me great pleasure to see what has been achieved since. “There are many volunteers at
Dart, and all deserve their piece of history and the thanks of all the people they rescue along the Dart and out to sea.” Long-serving helm and crew
volunteer Yorkie was equally thankful to have been asked. “The Dart volunteers work really hard and I’m just one of the team,” he said. “But it was an honour to put my name to a piece of RNLI history.” The scroll began its journey
RNLI President, HRH The Duke of Kent, as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dean of Westminster, the RNLI’s Chair and the RNLI’s Chief Executive. Ford are providing an All-Electric
E-Transit van for the journey. When the seven-month-long trip is complete, it will be displayed in the RNLI College in Poole, where the charity’s lifeboat crews and lifeguards are trained. The scroll is bespoke, involving
RNLI craftspeople and using materials of significance to the charity. The wooden handle has been made by a carpenter from the RNLI’s centre in Poole using wood from an old flagpole from Ramsey lifeboat station on the Isle of Man. Apprentices from the RNLI’s Inshore Lifeboat Centre on the Isle of Wight made the protective fibreglass casing and set the scroll spindles and accessories into the case.
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