A happy moment for the Ilfracombe crew but possibly tinged with sadness at the loss of their faithful Mersey.Cheer up lads you"ve got a FANTASTIC piece of kit in the new Shannon & I'm sure she will look after you.All the best for the future.Dave & Joy Nash.
A few questions on your superb video. 1) Does she need to beach and be dragged into the carriage, or can she float on? 2) If the tide is high on recovery, is there space for the carriage to turn once up the slip? 3) Why on earth does the recovery vehicle have to be road registered, surely the authorities have enough sense to realise this has one job and it's to save life's - bureaucracy gone mad! Again, an excellent video.
Shannon class boats are designed to either be launched and recovered from a beach, launched and recovered from a slipway or kept afloat. It depends on the circumstances of a specific lifeboat station.
At springs when at top of tide the boat is left in the outer harbour until low tide for recovery. At really high springs the flood gate at the top of the slipway is locked closed to stop the road around the lifeboat house from flooding. There are houses next to the boathouse that have cellars, and until the inner harbour wall was built the properties along the quay used to flood.
A happy moment for the Ilfracombe crew but possibly tinged with sadness at the loss of their faithful Mersey.Cheer up lads you"ve got a FANTASTIC piece of kit in the new Shannon & I'm sure she will look after you.All the best for the future.Dave & Joy Nash.
superbe video merci
A few questions on your superb video. 1) Does she need to beach and be dragged into the carriage, or can she float on? 2) If the tide is high on recovery, is there space for the carriage to turn once up the slip? 3) Why on earth does the recovery vehicle have to be road registered, surely the authorities have enough sense to realise this has one job and it's to save life's - bureaucracy gone mad! Again, an excellent video.
Shannon class boats are designed to either be launched and recovered from a beach, launched and recovered from a slipway or kept afloat. It depends on the circumstances of a specific lifeboat station.
At springs when at top of tide the boat is left in the outer harbour until low tide for recovery.
At really high springs the flood gate at the top of the slipway is locked closed to stop the road around the lifeboat house from flooding. There are houses next to the boathouse that have cellars, and until the inner harbour wall was built the properties along the quay used to flood.