StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: ON802

Moored in West Strand, Whitehaven Marina. (ON 802 is a 46' Watson class, was "City of Edinburgh" when stationed at Wick 1938 to 1968, during which time she was launched 133 times and saved 204 lives, (earning a bronze medal in 1942), she then "retired" into the relief fleet until being sold in 1976)

This ex-lifeboat is now (2015) berthed at Whitehaven. When I saw - and photographed - her previously; she was at Inverness on the Caledonian Canal. (ON 802 is a 46' Watson class, was "City of Edinburgh" when stationed at Wick 1938 to 1968, during which time she was launched 133 times and saved 204 lives, (earning a bronze medal in 1942), she then "retired" into the relief fleet until being sold in 1976)

"Saltire" ON 802, a 46ft Watson lifeboat, enjoying retirement, seen at Crinan Basin, on the canal. (ON 802 is a 46' Watson class, was "City of Edinburgh" when stationed at Wick 1938 to 1968, during which time she was launched 133 times and saved 204 lives, (earning a bronze medal in 1942), she then "retired" into the relief fleet until being sold in 1976)