Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service, or Caister Lifeboat, is based at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk, and operates one of only three offshore lifeboats in the UK that are independent of the RNLI.
Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Station.
The old RNLI station at Caister
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Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service
…Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service, or Caister Lifeboat, is based at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk, and operates one of only three offshore lifeboats in the UK that are independent of the RNLI. A lifeboat at Caister was first documented in 1791, being used by the Caister Beach Company to salvage ships…
A RNLI rescue lifeboat.
RNLI lifeboat in Dunbar Harbour, 1981
1906 postcard captioned, The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod
Lifeboat crew and boat, Atlantic City, New Jersey, about 1906