StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Hoek van Holland

The ex-KNRM lifeboat "Koningin Juliana" is mostly flush decked, apart from the wave guard on the bows, given that she is designed for working in the winter storm conditions of the North Sea. Her streamlined wheelhouse looks somewhat like the sail [conning tower] on a submarine for the same reason.

KNRM "Koningin Juliana" ["Queen Juliana"] entered service at Hoek van Holland [Hook of Holland] in 1963. Many of her missions were medical evacuations of sick and injured sailors. She would have been replaced by a "fast lifeboat" in the late 1980 / early 1990s. The lifeboat station at Hook of Holland had a gold medal service in 1985, that was performed by the lifeboat "President Jan Lels" I was at Rotterdam in 2008 with my [now late] father, and talked myself aboard her for a look around.