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warship. ally


onald Board- man has been face-to-face


He was in charge of a large inflatable boat, car­ rying a camera team, try­ ing to film Greenpeace volunteers approaching two Russian cruisers off the coast of Denmark. The exercise was part of


with a Rus­ sian warship.


Ministry of Agriculture course on a farm in Yeovil, he entered the field of con­ tract farming. Tragically, his first dairy herd suf­ fered an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. All 130 animals had to


be slaughtered, along with o th e r cloven-hoofed


the Greenpeace campaign for nuclear-free seas and the first targeting of a Russian vessel. Mr Board- man, along with other volunteers, had been aboard the Greenpeace


beasts, from pigs to goats, on the farm. Mr Boardman


himself was not allowed- near animals for six weeks. The traum a of the experience prompted him


ship, “Moby Dick,” for the better part of a week, waiting for a Russian


come. Two small inflatable boats, flying flags with nuclear symbols and tow­ ing a kite-shaped cruise missile, were launched, with Mr Boardman and the cameras just behind. Their goal was to catch


Finally, the moment had


to head back to sea, this time as a seamanship instructor aboard the “Foudroyant,” a frigate built of Bombay teak in


Greenpeace boats and a Russian vessel in the same frame, then pass their film on to the media in the hope of raising awareness


about the campaign. Everything was going


swimmingly until volun­


teers in one of the flag-fly­ ing boats decided to take the demonstration a step further and stick the flag on the stern of a ship. U n fo r tu n a tely , the


embarked on his second marriage and, within a short time, the couple found themselves as care­ takers, first on Tanera, an 800-acre island in the Summer Isles of Scotland, and then on Shuna, a 3,000-acre island in the Inner Hebrides. The “Oban Times" trig­ gered another career


1817. A ro u n d th e n , he


change. An advert for a second coxswain for a life­ boat based at Port Askaig, on Islay, triggered possi­ bly the most rewarding chapter in Boardman history. Mr Boardman was once again on his own maritally


wake of the giant warship began to pull the nose of the pint-sized inflatable under. Eventually, Mr


Boardman and the other volunteers managed to


rescue their colleagues from the precariously bob­ bing boat, which the coast­


guard later found some distance away. Still, they had their


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shots. It was just up to the media to bite. Sadly, only the Danish press was hooked — in part because the government objected to Greenpeace accosting ships. Otherwise, their protest went unnoticed in Britain, apart from a para- graph or two in the national press. Stories about his eco-ad-


venturc-s aboard the •Moby Dick” arc just a


chapter in the Donald Boardman book. Sitting in


Maggie Boardman seems fairly


the kitchen of the Cow Ark farmhouse he shares with his long-time partner, Rirtwell, Mr


settled. But putting down roots


lias never been a favourite occupation of seafaring men. Mr Boardman, who spent his childhood moving around the country on the heels of an RAF father, joined the Navy at the age of 17.


most spent in the Far East, ended with a stint on the famous anti-subma­ rine frigate “Amethyst,” which was protecting the British people of Nanking. For six weeks at a time, the vessel was mooring in the Yangtze River, while the Red Chinese advanced from the north of the coun­ try towards the National­ ists in the south. Just after Mr Boardman


Seven years of service,


left the “Amethyst,” in June, 19-19, the frigate


returned to Nanking only to become a shooting tar­ get for the Communists, who held the boat captive for 100 days, killing many on board. Mr Boardman continued


and thrived on the lifeboat regime. A certificate from b the Royal National Life


ledging 25 lives saved in nine years, hangs proudly


oat Institution, acknow­


on the wall of his kitchen. Anecdotes about meet­


ing the Royal Yacht and, in turn, the Queen, along­ side those about being rolled in force 12 winds and 30ft waves are just a few of his memories. It was on Islay that con­


servation became a major concern for both Mr Boardman and Miss Bir- twell, who was teaching on the island when the couple


met.Miss Birtwell, who is the daughter of the late


Stanley Birtwell, vicar of Clitheroe Parish Church from 1950 to 1960, and is infant teacher at Bren- nand’s Endowed School, Slaidburn, entered the fray when the Ardbeg dis­ tillery announced plans to burn the peat-rich winter feeding ground of thou­ sands of Greenland white- fronted geese. The conservation outcry


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SO you don't really know what aiils you? You have a ...........


satisfaction, no true peace of mind? Have you a


feeling that you are missing out? \ ou have no inner a great


ls^ u! i n li


sense of loss, a consciousness of a gaping void in youi life? Thanks be to God from Whom all such feelings come. Why? Because this is a divine discontent. Evi­ dently you are not so far gone as to be completely spiritually lifeless, or you would be incapable of this


if they can possibly be saved, is still able to stab your flagging spirit wide awake into thoughtfulness. T orn past neglect, indifference, self-centredness and that streak of apathy, have not yet succeeded in comple­ tely stifling your spiritual capacity. You are spiri­ tually undernourished because of your neglect or attention to God’s word, talking to Him and listening to Him in orayer. By choosing to go your own way, instead of following His guidance, you have been try­ ing to do everything in your own strength, haven t you?


feeling of deep uneasiness. Our heavenly Father, Who never lets anybody go,


If vou neglect your body by denying it food, it is o ' ------ *»--* ^ time you will graduully lose strength


bvious that in )


and die from malnutrition. Your spiritual life, starved of spiritual nourishment, has absolutely no option but to perish from malnutrition. The fact that vou have- a divine discontent is something to be thankful for, as a sign that your spiritual life is still alive and stirring within you. The spiritually dead have no such feel­ ings, because they have effectively silenced the still small voice within them. That keen awareness of your need is the first step towards your recovery. Be of good cheer, there’s hope for you yet! Hey there! Why sigh so deeply? You don’t feel


lgood enough? Good enough for what? The Christian


weakened state you are not able to think straight. No one has ever been good enough to accept the gift of salvation from Jesus. Every one of us is a sinner, entirely unworthy of His gift of grace. This favour is always unmerited. We do not have to earn it, nor do we have to work our own way into the Kingdom. All any of us can do is simply believe. Accept the gift of God’s grace, believe that God loves you and


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his s e rv ic e back in England, where he mar­ ried briefly, then left the Forces and “ messed about” before rejoining the Navy for another seven years. Sailing with the Merchant Navy, including two trips to South Africa, followed. The high seas were


over the Duich Moss blan­ ket bog, which eventually succeeded in an EEC directive preventing the action, saw David Bellamy and then Friends of the Earth director Jonathan i Porritt stopping overnight


abandoned when Mr Boardman decided to revive a family interest in farming. After a one-year


high-level nuclear waste deposit.


n the Boardman-Birtwell


home.Meanwhile, Mr Board- man, as secretary of the local community council, was looking into British Nuclear Fuels’ plans to test-drill on Jura for a


him to write to Green­ peace on the eve of his lifeboat retirement and he soon found himself on a shakedown cruise, aboard


His interest prompted


Sellafield wastepipe. As divers burned through the concrete-jacketed metal pipe, the entire crew was served with injunctions to stop. They refused and


assumed ar res t would follow.


the Amsterdam-based “Sirius,” circling a ship


burning chemical waste in the North Sea.


The next port-of-call was a campaign to plug a


taken off the boat, leading Mr Boardman to spend two seasons on the “Moby Dick,” demonstrating mainly against the nuclear


It did not. But all were


power stations of Sella; f ield , Dounreay


and


1988 with Miss Birtwell and her mother, Nancy, seems to have brought his seafaring to a standstill, but his environmental con­ science remains strong, having embraced the local campaign for a morato­ rium on the burning of Cemfuel until the fuel is proven to be safe.


Hinckley Point. The move to Cow Ark in


stock at Clitheroe Library include:


LIBRARY R CORNER „


ECENT additions to the “ D a yb re a k " — Hclva


Plain. A heart-warming novel dealing with contemporary


family life and the discovery of someone having been swapped at birth.


Wright. When Kate Branm- gan offers a million dollars for the heads of those who killed her husband in Belfast, she uncovers a secret world of


"Headhunter” — Glover


violence and intrigue. “ The year after child-


birth” — Shelia Kitzingcr. Every aspect of this roller­ coaster v ear is examined, with special focus on the phys­ ical and emotional experiences


of motherhood. “Scan Connery: a biogra­


phy” — Michael Frcedland. Readers are given an intimate


that Jesus died upon the cross to be the last ultimate sacrifice for the sms of all of us.


JOE STANSFIELD.


insight into this magnetic, mysterious character, who has often been called “the sex­ iest man alive.”


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