'If only they were all this easy to launch...' RNLI staff watch the launch of one of the scale models of a proposed new lifeboat design at the Institution's Poole HQ in March. Pictured are (from left to right behind model): Lt Cdr H. E. Over (chief technical officer), Ray Kipling (deputy director), Bob Cripps (naval architect) and Capt George Cooper (chief of operations)..