Graham Hall on Saving Lives at Sea

Lisa: How much, how closely did you work with other Lifeboat stations around the Island?

Quite closely, I mean our, we didn’t have Cowes when I started. That was formed half way through my time in the Lifeboat but Yarmouth of course we work quite closely with.

To be fair, we worked more closely operationally with the ones on the Mainland because at Hayling Island and Portsmouth and that, they have Atlantic rubber boats there and we used to act as their back-up if there was bad weather or something, we used to put to sea from there so we kept in close contact with them but yes, the Lifeboats in the area do keep in quite close contact. 

We were often meeting up with each other. If we had courses to go to, they might choose one Lifeboat House to hold the course in and we’d all go to that Lifeboat House and then they’d come back to another one for another course and things like that