On March 30 Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (c), director of the Institution, accepted the gift of a radar simulator, to be used for crew training, from Alan Jones (I), of Rediffusion Ltd of Crawlev. The simulator was prepared for the RNLI by a staff team at Crawlev as a private project and the caravan mobile training unit was fitted out for the road by RNLI depot staff. By simulating situations likely to be met by crews on service, the unit will provide excellent training facilities for lifeboatmen throughout Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Jock Stewart (r), a radar specialist with the Royal Navy for many years, is the instructor in charge of the training programme.

photograph by courtesy of Bournemouth Evening Echo.