Registration number 2204
Status Registered
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Details

Function Service Vessel
Subfunction Lifeboat
Location Whitby
Vessel type Rubie Class Lifeboat
Current use Museum based
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Saunders, S E Ltd, East Cowes
Built in 1918
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Manpower
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
8.00 feet (2.44m)
Length: Overall
33.97 feet (10.36m)

History

ROBERT and ELLEN ROBSON was a 34 foot Rubie designed Dungeness self righter. She was based at Tramore from 1918 to 1923; Aberdeen from 1924 to 1939 and 1943 to 1947; and finally Whitby from 1947 to 1957. Whilst serving in Aberdeen, she saved a total of twenty one lives. 

When the No2 lifeboat house and boat came out of service in 1957 application was made to the RNLI to turn the site into a museum. So ROBERT and ELLEN ROBSON went from being in service direct into a museum environment and hence remains very original. A later cosmetic restoration returned her finish to that of 1947 appearance when she went on service in Whitby.

She is understood to have been the last pulling lifeboat in RNLI service.

Sources

RNLI Museum Whitby

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