Humber on Holidays!

The Pay and Display at Bridlington Pier is currently hosting the RNLI lifeboat "The Pride of The Humber" which seems to have come for a short holiday.

Actually it seems that use is being made of the Pier boat lift to allow a bit of hull painting and maintenance to be undertaken.

The usual home base for this craft is Spurn Point which is a long stretch of the country that tapers into the North Sea and forms the northerly bank of the River Humber.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a volunteer maritime lifesaving service funded entirely from public donations.
The team at Spurn Head are the only professionally paid crew in the RNLI and have accommodation near to the boathouse.

All the other crews are volunteers who often have to rush from their normal occupations in order to launch for an emergency.

"The Pride of The Humber" carries the registration 17-05.
The RNLI mark their All Weather Lifeboats with two sets of numbers.
The first set refers to the length of the craft in metres which the second set indicates the number of the boat in the series for that class/length.

So in this case "The Pride of The Humber" is 17m long and was the 5th boat put into service.

Other RNLI AW Lifeboats on the East Coast are,
Bridlington, 12-12
Filey, 12-13
Scarborough, 12-18
Whitby, 14-14