The Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum
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The Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 21 Mar 2022
Inside this former lifeboat house specially brought here from Cromer is a preserved Victorian lifeboat, the "Alfred Corry." The museum website https://www.alfredcorry.co.uk says "The boat was built by Beeching Bros. of Great Yarmouth, and cost a total of £490.7s.4d. The RNLI provided this money from a legacy left to them by the late Mr. A. J. Corry of Putney, and hence the boat was named "Alfred Corry”. Mr. Corry had no connection with Southwold. The formal naming and handing over ceremony took place on the beach at the Southwold lifeboat station on Easter Monday, April 3rd 1883, after which she served as the Southwold No.1 boat for 25 years, during which time she was launched 41 times on service, and saved 47 lives"
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