conserving maritime heritage
Lucy Lavers is a single-screw Liverpool type Life-boat, 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 project to take her back to Dunkirk by sea encouraging visitors and schools involvement on the way.
Lucy Lavers background and photos
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We are delighted to have been awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant to restore, film and tell the story of Lifeboat Lucy Lavers.
Crab boat Pegasus has been generously donated to us by Bernard Thain and family, Graeme Peart has very kindly donated whelker Harvester (above) and Ernie Dewhurst crab boat Star... Witham Oil & Paint Ltd as well as Marine & Industrial LLP are kindly supporting us with material.
We are looking for volunteers to help in many ways - do contact us if interested.
In memory:
We are creating an educational film and photo archive of these working boats (see catalogue). We have filmed lifeboat crew members who have served on Lucy Lavers and other lifeboats and fishermen who made their living using boats like Black Beauty crab boat (above), donated to RESCUE WOODEN BOATS by Andy Frary, and whelker Bessie. We will film the restoration of Lucy Lavers and post the films here. 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.
RESCUE WOODEN BOATS (Registered Charity 1144180) 14 Norton Street, Burnham Norton, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE31 8DR
info@rescuewoodenboats.com www.rescuewoodenboats.com +44 (0) 7920 760238
“North Norfolk Crabber” triptych painting by James Dodds
