When the new 47ft Tyne class fas! slipway lifeboat, City of London came up the Thames for her official naming, it was also an ideal opportunity for some of the children of Thomas's School, Kensington, to hand over the money that they had raised for the RNLI with a sponsored ice-skate. Here, with the flag-waving support of his classmates, Darc Mitchell hands the cheque for £287.65 to Principal Staff Coxswain Jim Hunter who was in command of the lifeboat for her London visit..