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Captured In Oils:

Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver medal when he took off the five man crew of the dredger Holland I in a gale and 20ft waves. The painting itself hangs in the RNLI museum at Poole headquarters, open to the public during office hours..