Captain Gordon Butterworth (I), Chief Marine Superintendent, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, presented a £14,000 cheque to Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director of the Institution, on board RFA Sir Lamorak at Marchwood, Southampton, on April 16.

The cheque represents one tenth of the target that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary has set itself to provide funds for a new lifeboat in memory of those officers and men of the RFA service who died in the Falklands conflict in 1982. With them is Captain P. J. G. Roberts, captain at that time of RFA Sir Galahad after which the new lifeboat is to be named. Further cheques for £355 from the officers and men of RFA Sir Lamorak and £45 from the 17th Port Regiment RCT, based at Marchwood, were presented, photograph by courtesy of Southern Newspapers.