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Last Severn Class lifeboat launched

01 Jun 2005

Margaret, Joan and Fred Nye, is the name of the final Severn class lifeboat for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). She was launched last month by the then RNLI engineering manager, Bob Cripps.

The last Severn Class gets under way

The £2m lifeboat was paid for by a total of five different legacies. The main donor, Miss Joan Nye, requested that the lifeboat should be named in memory of herself and her parents.

Bob Cripps - now technical director at VT Halmatic - was instrumental in producing this class of all weather lifeboat, which was first introduced into active service in 1995. At 17m in length, the Severn remains the largest boat in the RNLI's fleet.

This last boat was built by Green Marine and finished by Berthon. The Severn Class is being replaced by the Tamar all-weather slipway boat.

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