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Poole: Poole Yacht Club in Hamworthy was where, on Wednesday May 8, 1985, the naming and service of dedication took place for the station's new 20ft Boston Whaler Outrage lifeboat, the only boat of this type in the RN LI fleet. She was paid for out of the proceeds of the 1981 Mayor's appeal, Round Table and 'Beating the Bounds' collections and other gifts. Councillor P. J. Coles, whose Mayor's appeal it had been, named the lifeboat Sam and Iris Coles in memory of his parents, his father having been station honorary secretary, fund raising honorary secretary and finally vice-president of Poole branch between 1946 and 1981. photograph by courtesy of Poole Evening Echo.

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