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Lifeboat Day 2008 provides great opportunity for New Lifeboat Book Launch.
Lee St Quinton, 23/7/08

The Front Cover.

Saturday 26th July 2008 will see Skegness Lifeboat Station hold its annual Flag Day, The day will be packed with various stalls including Water or Wine, Tombola, Raffle, Face painting, name the Teddy and lots lots more.

Both boats will be going to sea to perform staged rescues with local boat owners and an RAF Sea King Rescue Helicopter, the RAF are also providing a rescue raft and members of their Sea Survival School to take part in the Rescue.

The event stretching all day is a great opportunity for everyone to come down and meet the Lifeboat Crews and station officials, young or old your sure to have a great time.

If that wasnt enough for you, the one day event will also host a book launch, The author Nicholas leach has spent many hours conducting research about Skegness Lifeboats since the early 1800's, this is what the publishers have to say about the book:

"This book provides a comprehensive history of the lifeboats and lifeboat crews which have served the Skegness station, from the early days of the small rowing boats to the modern high-speed Mersey class lifeboat. Many rescues are described, and the informative text is accompanied by a comprehensive collection of photographs, many previously unpublished.

The author, Nicholas Leach, has written extensively about the history of the lifeboat service, including a number of titles for Landmark. He has compiled this book with the full co-operation of Skegness lifeboat station and it is an authoritative account of more than 180 years of rescues and life-saving."

We'll see you there !!!

Seabank Runners Raise £800
Russell Matthews, 16/7/08

Skegness Lifeboat crew members Lee St Quinton, Amy Cobble and Dean Summer were joined by Craig Lymer, Katie Taylor and Ryan Ellis to raise money for the RNLI in this years Boston-Skegness Seabank Marathon in June.

In total, approx £800 was raised, to be split between the marathon's official charities and the Skegness Lifeboat Station.