Images Dated 2020

Swanage ON 706 Self Righting Motor Thomas Markby complete with crew

Swanage ON 706 Self Righting Motor "Thomas Markby" complete with crew, travelling from right to left taken from the Grahame Farr Life-boat Archives

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Invergordon Lifeboat RNLI 13-37 arriving at her new permanent home

Five of the stations volunteer crew, with a combined service to the RNLI of over 125 years, sailed her into Invergordon at 1:37pm on 1st Nov 2020 to match the vessels number 13-37, depicting the 13m of the vessel length and 37 indicating the 37th Shannon class lifeboat built.
Arriving in the Cromarty Firth for the first time, the Shannon was escorted by the stations current all-weather Trent class lifeboat "Douglas Aikman Smith" carried a slow pass of the towns waterfront with the Trent leading the way to her new berth in the town's West Harbour with water canon display from the local Global Energy Group tug "Strathdee"