Some of the Lifeboats on Display

Photograph of the Grace Darling GRACE DARLING

Type: 35ft 6in Liverpool Twin-Screw Lifeboat
Built: 1954
Length: 35ft 6in
Beam: 10ft 8in
Stationed: North Sunderland, Youghal and Relief.
Displays show the story of Grace Darling and the RNLI

Photograph of the Edward Bridges EDWARD BRIDGES

Type: Arun class
Built: 1975
Length: 54ft
Beam: 17ft
Stationed: Torbay.
Visitors can walk aboard and around Edward Bridges. Most of her original equipment has now been refitted.

Photograph of the Blue Peter III BLUE PETER III

Type: D class Inshore Lifeboat
Built: 1967
Length: 16ft
Stationed: North Berwick, Trearddur Bay, Scarborough, Little and Broad Haven and Margate.
Blue Peter III is the centre of a display which traces the links between the RNLI and the popular BBC TV program, whose appeals have funded a number of new lifeboats.

The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ, England
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