Barry Dock lifeboat station has very close links with RAF Kinloss, a friendship which began six years ago when Fl-Lt Tony Cowan and a colleague were testing a homing device they had invented. After a satisfactory completion of the trials, in which the crew of Barry's Arun took part, four lifeboatmen were invited to take a flight in a Nimrod. Since then almost all members of the lifeboat crew have 'flown' Nimrods. Last June four lifeboatmen, past and present, journeyed north to RAF Kinloss to present to 201 Squadron a model of a two-masted tops'l schooner made by former Coxswain Ted Powell, Barry Dock's 'thank you' to its RAF friends. (I to r) Wing-Cdr Peter Presland, former Coxswain Ted Powell, former Second Coxswain Tosh Thomas, Crew Member Len Dare and Campbell Morgan, at one time a crew member, now a deputy launching authority..