A Welcome Visitor 26 Apr 2011
The brand new Tamar class lifeboat to be stationed at Walton visited to RCYC for a sandwich lunch on Sunday.
The Walton crew collected the £2.
7 million boat from the RNLI HQ at Poole three weeks ago after an intensive course at the Lifeboat College and have just completed a further two weeks of training on-station at Walton.
She spent Sunday morning on exercise with both Burnham lifeboats which was the Walton crew’s first day out without a ‘minder’ in the form of an RNLI inspector or training staff on board.
A number of club members took the opportunity to look around the boat, though Margaret Pollard was surprised when she approached a group of seven people on the balcony to ask if they would like a look at the lifeboat and they replied, “We’ve been on her all morning – we’re the crew!
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