Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27 in Poole. The caravan, costing £16,000, will be towed by Landrover to lifeboat stations all round the coast, where crews will receive instruction from an RNLI training officer. Modern lifeboats are fitted with MF and VHP radios, radar, automatic direction finding units, echo sounders and Decca Navigator. The caravan provides an opportunity for lifeboatmen to gain experience in using these aids..