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Clacton on Sea |
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D - Class Lifeboat's
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ILB D-107 Outside the Inshore Boathouse |
ILB D-107 |
ILB D-107 1966 - 1978
| D-107 was launched at 12:00Hrs on August 11th 1970, after the Coastguard had reported that a speedboat was going around in circles, one mile off Clacton Pier. As there was a possibility that the driver was still on board, perhaps unconscious, the lifeboat went out to check. On the way out they came across a pleasure boat, which had picked up the speedboat's driver and he was taken aboard the ILB. There was a very considerable danger that the run away boat could hit other craft in the area, or bathers in the water and so the chase began to catch it. Eventually using a boathook and manoeuvring at over 20 knots, the ILB got close enough to the speedboat for one of the lifeboatmen to lean over and knock the boat's gear lever into neutral, and the driver was put back on board again. |
ILB D-262 1978 - 1984
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Outside the inshore boathouse with lifeboat D-262 in 1981.
Left to Right: Ian Mantripp, Paul Evans, Mark Matthews
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ILB D-262 was formally Dedicated on the 9th July 1978. She was soon in action being launched for the first time on service at 1pm on the 21st July and going out to a rubber dinghy, with one man on board which was drifting out to sea off Holland on Sea. D-262 was again launched on the 10th June 1979 to the aid of three people who had been cut off by the tide, on a sand bank in the river Colne. Onwe adult and two children all soaked and extremely cold were rescued and brought ashore. |
ILB D-302 1984 - 1992
Clacton's D-Class Lifeboat D-302
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The D-Class Lifeboat made of nylon coated with neoprene-hypalon. With a crew of two or three and a length of 4.9mts (16 feet) its launched from a trailer, with a speed of around 20 knots and an endurance of 3Hrs at maximum speed. Powered by a 40hp o/b engine. This class of Lifeboat was introduced in 1963. Although this Lifeboat is not used at night it is an ideal boat for close in work around the rocks and under the pier. The D-Class Lifeboat in Clacton is on station all year round and is launched from the west promenade. |
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Launching the D-Class Lifeboat from the trailer. |
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The Clacton's D-Class Lifeboat returning to the beach through the surf. |
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ILB D-431 1992 -
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ILB D-559 Seahorse II
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The IRB D559 (inshore Lifeboat) on its new slip
