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A Good Job Well Done

These photographs of the relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser were taken in Christchurch Bay while filming for the RNLI's latest film was in progress.

The 30-minute film is titled 'A Good Job Well Done' and has been shot in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to take in virtually every aspect of the Institution and its work. Apart from breath-taking footage of lifeboats in heavy seas the cameras recorded the setting up of a new lifeboat station at Ballyglass in the Republic of Ireland and the naming ceremony in Thurso, Scotland when HRH The Queen Mother bestowed her name on the station's new Arun class lifeboat.

Malory Maltby, the film's producer, was also aboard Margaret Russell Fraser, which was on temporary station duty at Yarmouth (loW), when she rescued two men from the Ro-Ro car ferry Al Kwather I in winds which reached hurricane force. Spectacular night footage of the survivors boarding the lifeboat forms part of the new film. Coxswain Dave Kennett was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for gallantry as a result of the service, and this is the first time in the Institution's 166-year history that a medal-winning service has been captured on film. (See Lifeboat Services, previous page) Welsh actor Philip Madoc (who played the fictitional lifeboat coxswain in the television series 'Ennals Point') gave his services to record the commentary and the sound-track includes 'Home from the Sea' composed by RNLI supporter Phil Coulter, who also wrote 'Puppet on a String' and 'Congratulations'.

The film was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Volvo Concessionaires, and follows a very successful two-year fund raising campaign involving UK Volvo dealers and RNLI volunteers. 'A Good Job Well Done' will be available for hire to groups on 16mm film and VHS video cassette from the RNLI's normal source: Viscom Ltd, Unit B11, Park Hall Road Trading Estate, Dulwich, London SE21 8EL, telephone 01-761 3035.

(From 6 May 1990 081-761 3035.) Films and videos should be available from May 1990.

Together we Care A Good Job Well Done was sponsored by Volvo Concessionaires.