(Right) A visit to St Mary's lifeboat station while holidaying in the Scil/y Isles 22 years ago began a lifelong interest in lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters. Since then, they and their children, Carolyn, Stephen and David, have gradually been fulfilling an ambition to visit every lifeboat station in England, Scotland and Wales: an ambition finally realised last summer during a holiday to Shetland. Next year they plan to start visiting Irish lifeboat stations . . . Both Mr and Mrs Waters are active members of Winchester branch committee, of which Mrs Waters is chairman; Derrick Waters is also a founder member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society.

photograph by courtesy of 'Hampshire Chronicle'.