Mike, a touch of Mr Brown is always more than welcome and he is someone I have always rated, still performing to full houses and was always Norry Paramour's go to guitarist for session work, just the job.
Sarge and indeed you too Mike a short video of the new Shannon class boat Duke of Edinburgh being lead into Wells harbour by the outgoing Mersey class boat Doris mann of Ampthill.
Please forgive me if I've already mentioned this (memory getting worse) but part of the fund raising involved having, for a small fee, a name of your choice put into the letters on the side of the boat and also on the wheelhouse roof.
Approximately 15000 people thought it was a damn good idea too!
Denise chose to have her late fathers name added and is apparently in the loop of the number six on each side of the craft and we both find it rather fitting that when the boat goes on a shout it carries the name of an old Wells family who gave nearly three centuries service to the lifeboat in Wells as either crew and in the case of her great grand father, coxswain.
The numbering on the side 13-46 stands for the boats length (13 meters ) and 46 for the it being the 46th allocated.
A picture of an old Wells boat I think taken between 1913 and the 1930's when the boat pictured (The Baltic was in service) is shown in this link..
https://grimesinc.neocities.org/images/Wells_lifeboat_crew.htm
Denise's great grandfather William (coxswain) is shown as well as her grandfather also William but known as "patchy" he his on the far left of the lifeboat house picture and also next to his whelk boat in the bottom picture. There are two great uncles at the front and another on top of the lifeboat who sadly was killed whilst serving in the RN in WW2.
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