AN APPEAL has been launched in Nottinghamshire to raise £150,000 to fund a Brede type lifeboat to be named The Nottinghamshire. In support of the appeal, the ex-Scarborough 37ft Oakley lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield (service commitments permitting) will be on passage through the waterways of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire in late May and early June. Information about the lifeboat's passage is available from the North East regional office, The Mill, Glasshouses, Nr Harrogate, North Yorkshire.The five-year international sponsored swim project in aid of the RNLI was closed last November when, at the Amateur Swimming Association annual meeting at Coventry, a token cheque for £40,000 was presented to Norman Crumbie, a member of the Fund Raising Committee, by Fred Collins, president ASA (see photograph below). Extrahelp in the final stages of the project came from 'Swimalong with Wilkie' events at Holiday Inns and public baths..