South Broads Lifeboat Station was an RNLI operated lifeboat stationRNLI station at South Broads, Lowestoft
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Oulton Broad Oulton Broad refers to both the lake and the suburb of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. The suburb is located west of the centre of Lowestoft. It became a civil parish in 2017. It had an estimated population of 10,338 at the 2011 Uni ...

in the town of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk.''Explorer Map OL40 – The Broads'',

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, 2010-01-22. The station operated between 2001 and 2011.South Broads RNLI lifeboat station to close
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 2011-11-14. Retrieved 2014-03-15. The station covered the southern area of

The Broads The Broads (known for marketing purposes as The Broads National Park) is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Although the terms "Norfolk Broads" and "Suffolk Broads" are correctly use ...

network, an area of over of inland waterways including the

River Waveney The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The "ey" part of the name means "river" thus the name is tautological. Course The source of the River Wavene ...

.South Broads lifeboat station at Oulton Broad hit by burglars
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Eastern Daily Press The ''Eastern Daily Press'' (''EDP'') is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK. Founded in 1870 as a broadsheet called the ''Eastern Counties Daily P ...

'', 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2014-03-15. The station performed 194 rescues.

Closure

The RNLI decided to close the station in January 2011 after a review which recommended that lifesaving across

would be more effectively covered from Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat Station. Following the closure in November 2011, the station's and lifeboats were added to the RNLI's relief fleet and its 4x4 vehicle transferred to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.RNLI closes South Broads lifeboat station at Oulton Broad
BBC news website, 2011-11-15. Retrieved 2014-03-15.

Fleet

''D''-class

''XP''-class

References

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