A new lifeboat - named after the late couple whose will funded its construction - is getting ready to sail to Norfolk.
On Saturday, September 23, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's RNLI station will welcome the arrival of the organisation’s first ever legacy lifeboat.
The name of the vessel, a Shannon Class RNLB 13-44, is ‘George and Frances Phelon’.
The construction of the lifeboat was fully funded by a gift in the will of Frances Phelon, who asked that the vessel be named after herself and her late husband.
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Currently, five crew members of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston RNLI Lifeboat station are at the RNLI headquarters in Poole, where they are training and preparing to make the passage from there to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.
At 1.20pm, the boat will arrive at Gorleston pier escorted by lifeboats from nearby stations including the all-weather boat Samarbeta and the in-shore craft John Rowntree.
The vessels will then complete a display before heading into Gorleston harbour.
Once the lifeboats are moored up, the station will be open to the public to walk around and take a look at the legacy lifeboat.
The crew is led by coxswain Andy Mason and second coxswain and station mechanic Rod Wells who together have more than 86 years of lifeboat experience.
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Events will begin at 10am with the opening of the RNLI shop in Gorleston.
At 1.20pm, the new lifeboat will arrive, followed by a display. The lifeboat will then cross the pierheads into Gorleston harbour at 1.44pm.
The RNLI station will then open to the public at 2.30pm.
Mr Wells said: “After many hours of intense training we are finally getting together and looking forward to bringing our lifeboat home this Saturday."
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