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| Ramsgate Lifeboat is officially
named and dedicated. |
Ramsgate's 7.3m Atlantic 75 lifeboat will be officially named
and dedicated at a service to be held at the lifeboat house on Saturday 9
September at 3.00pm. The lifeboat has been provided by a legacy from Mr Bob
Turnbull, together with a donation from Mrs Jane Turnbull.
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An Atlantic 75 lifeboat. |
Programme: Dr William Crawford, chairman of Ramsgate
station branch will open the proceedings, followed by Mr Ian Shrimpton, who, on
behalf of the donor Mrs Turnbull, will hand the lifeboat into the care of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Sir John James, KCBO, CBE deputy chairman
of the RNLI, will accept the lifeboat and deliver it into the care of the
Ramsgate station branch. Captain Geoffrey Tully, honorary secretary of the
Ramsgate station branch, will accept the lifeboat on behalf of the station,
followed by the service of dedication, conducted by the Reverend Peter Adams,
Vicar of Holy Trinity Church and St George's Church, Ramsgate. The lesson will
be read by Mr Jim Lyne, honorary treasurer of Ramsgate station branch and Dr
William Crawford will invite Mrs Jane Turnbull to name the lifeboat Bob
Turnbull. Finally the lifeboat will launch, weather permitting.
Ramsgate
lifeboat station was first established in 1802 and, since that date, Ramsgate's
lifeboat crews have launched 2,648 times, saving 2,462 lives. Ramsgate's
current coxswain, Ron Cannon was recently awarded the Maud Smith award for the
bravest rescue of the year and RNLI's Silver Medal for bravery with the crew
receiving the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum and medal certificates, for the service
to the yacht Rasmus, aground on the Goodwin Sands during the Autumn of 1999.
The Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable lifeboat was developed at the RNLI's
inshore lifeboat centre at Cowes in 1992, to eventually replace the Atlantic
21. She is longer and broader than the Atlantic 21 and her name is derived from
her length of nearly 7.5m. Her twin outboard engines make her the fastest
lifeboat in the fleet and her hull design provides a softer ride than her
predecessor for three crew and survivors.
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