Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week each.

Glyn’s acrylic studies of Cornish scenes have marked him as one to watch in the art world. Many of the paintings have sold for well over £100, and in November one sold for more than £1,000. Glyn has generously donated half of the proceeds to the RNLI.

He says: ‘The weather changes minute to minute here, and it’s all too easy to ? nd yourself in an exposed location with the waves whipping up. The volunteers of the RNLI show extraordinary courage in saving lives every year.’ Glyn is just one of more than 200 community sellers who have donated some of their eBay proceeds to the RNLI. Find out more at ebay.co.uk/rnli. Royal events in Whitby and Poole Royal support for the RNLI continued in the Autumn, with two notable visits.

The Duchess of Kent opened the new lifeboat station at Whitby on 7 September. She also named the station’s latest D class inshore lifeboat OEM Stone III.

The lifeboat was funded with a legacy from Barnsley woman Olive Stone. As a little girl, Ms Stone was rescued by a lifeboat crew, and she supported the RNLI since that day.

The Duchess is pictured above unveiling a bronze bust of Whitby’s most famous lifeboatman Henry Freeman, created by renowned sculptor Richard Sefton. Freeman was a crew member for more than 40 years, and was the only survivor of the Whitby lifeboat disaster in 1861, thanks in part to the cork lifejacket he was wearing.

The new lifeboat station replaces a building from 1918, and provides up-to-date facilities for one of the busiest crews in the north of England, including warm crew changing rooms, a training room and offi ces.

The Duchess of Kent has long been associated with Whitby lifeboat station, and has named the station’s last three lifeboats.

She arrived at the ceremony onboard the station’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat George and Mary Webb.

A month later, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne visited The Lifeboat College in Poole on 9 October, as part of her tour of Dorset.

The Princess sat at the helm of the College’s lifeboat simulator, before watching four RNLI crew trainers demonstrate a lifeboat capsize in the sea survival pool. She then went to see the training vessel Robert S Ellsmoor, moored outside the College, and met lifeboat crew from around the UK and RoI who were attending training courses. Find out more about the College on page 14..