The lifeboat that isn't

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The photograph on this page of The lifeboat that isn't by James Allan as part of the Geograph project.

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The lifeboat that isn't

Image: © James Allan Taken: 7 Apr 2014

This is the former lifeboat 'Duke of Kent' a Rother class RNLI lifeboat built by William Osborne of Littlehampton. It saw service at Eastbourne from 1979 to 1993. After a further year at Eastbourne as a relief boat, she was sold by the RNLI and became a Survey Vessel operating out of Tayport. A lifeboat was stationed at Tayport in 1837, but after the RNLI took over in 1861 activity became centred on the other side of the Firth of Tay at Broughty Ferry, one of the busiest lifeboat stations in Scotland.

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Image Location

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Latitude
56.452084
Longitude
-2.88319