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Lucy Lavers Lifeboat
Lucy Lavers is a single-screw Liverpool type lifeboat, built in 1940 for Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station. Her first service was the Dunkirk Rescue operation. She later served as a relief Lifeboat at Wells-next-the-Sea and elsewhere on the East Coast. She has been donated to us for restoration by the Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust.
Our first project is to restore Dunkirk Veteran Lucy Lavers to her former glory and our second to take her back to Dunkirk by sea in 2015 for the 75th anniversary encouraging visitors and we hope inspiring young people's interest in her place in history on the way.

We are delighted to have been awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant to restore, film and tell the story of Lifeboat Lucy Lavers.

Return to Dunkirk 2015 See leaflet
Lucy Lavers background and photos
Dunkirk and Lucy Lavers
Lucy Lavers construction
Finding Lucy Lavers
Follow the current restoration work on Lucy Lavers
Supporting Lucy Lavers restoration

News & Events
Latest news....
Plans are well underway for Lifeboat Lucy Lavers exciting, donation funded return trip to Dunkirk in May. See details and link to eBay auction of places aboard here.

You can donate with the button below, or our bank details here for BACS or standing orders and direct debits
   and your name will be in the book which will travel to Dunkirk with Lucy Lavers.

The EDP has just launched an appeal
to help her get there and back. See how far she has got here
.
She is going from Wells, via Lowestoft, Aldeburgh, Harwich and Ramsgate with an exhibition and visits aboard in each port. See details here

Our Visitor Centre (off Greenway, Stiffkey, NR23 1QF) is open on Saturdays and Sundays 10- 4.00 MAP SEE OUR SHOP
As well as Lucy Lavers story, there are displays of fishing, boat building and military camp history
We welcome volunteers to join the team to help in many ways - contact us to discuss.

In memory

Education, Films & Photos
We are creating an educational oral history film and photo archive of these working boats (see catalogue of boats) and their stories. We are filming the tales of the lives of lifeboat crew members who served on Lucy Lavers, and other lifeboats, who were also the fishermen making their livings using boats like crab boat Pegasus given by Bernard Thain and family, w helker Harvester (above left) from Graeme Peart, crab boat Star from Ernie Dewhurst and a mussel flat from Cyril Southerland. These boats join whelker Bessie and crab boat Black Beauty (above) donated by Andy Frary.

We are also filming the restoration of lifeboat Lucy Lavers.

There are now more than one hundred films on our website and many collections of photographs lent to us by local families. These will soon be accompanied by education packs for schools to help them use the films and plan visits to see the maritime history and boat restoration at the Visitor Centre.

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Latest films
Sheringham films
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