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Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. It i ...
(RNLI) station located in Whitstable in the English county of Kent.''OS Explorer Map 150 – Canterbury & the Isle of Thanet''.Published: Ordnance Survey – Southampton. . The station was established in 1963, and has always operated an inflatable inshore lifeboat. The first lifeboat was one of the first lifeboats in the RNLI fleet, D-2. In 1974, Whitstable received the larger twin engine B-516. The current lifeboat is the named ''Lewisco'' (B-877), which has been on the station since 2014. Boathouse accommodation has been improved over the years, with a single storey extension added to the side to improve crew facilities in 1989, and a new boathouse completed in 2000. A number of awards have been made to Whitstable crew. These include, between 1977 and 2010, one RNLI bronze medal and four "Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum" for bravery during rescues. The station also received the RNLI’s "Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Annual Award" for the most meritorious rescue by an inshore lifeboat crew in 2009. In the
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David Andrew Lamberton, the station's honorary secretary, was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the RNLI. The annual "Dan Davies Competition" is held in the memory of Whitstable general practitioner Dan Davies, who served as medical officer to the lifeboat station. In 2023, Whitstable Lifeboat Station celebrated its 60th anniversary.


Whitstable lifeboats


Launch and recovery tractors


Station honours

The following are awards made at Whitstable * RNLI Bronze Medal ::David Parry, Helmsman - 2000 *The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum ::David Victor Foreman, Helmsman - 1977 ::Michael A Judge, Helmsman - 1981 ::Michael Gambrill, Helmsman - 1986 ::Jonathon Carter - 2010 *The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award 2009
::Jonathon Carter - 2010 * Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE) ::Michael Judge, crew member - 2001 ::David Andrew Lamberton, Former Helmsman, Lifeboat Operations Manager - 2003


Gallery

File:Lifeboat at Whitstable - geograph.org.uk - 924197.jpg, ''Oxford Town and Gown'' Atlantic 75-class lifeboat File:Whitstable Lifeboat Oxford Town and Gown B-764 6 June 2010.jpg, ''Oxford Town and Gown'' Atlantic 75-class lifeboat, just after launch File:Monday 5 April 2010, Whitstable Lifeboat.JPG, ''Oxford Town and Gown'' inside Whitstable boathouse File:Monday 5 April 2010, Whitstable Lifeboat (1).JPG, ''Oxford Town and Gown'' on her launch cradel inside Whitstable boathouse


See also

* List of RNLI stations *
Royal National Lifeboat Institution The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. It i ...
* Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats


References

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