From the vessels official web site @ http://www.geminiexplorer.co.uk/index.php This is an ex RNLI Clyde Class Lifeboat still carrying her former service number.Built in 1974 at Bideford Yard in Glasgow. Based in Clovelly in England from 1974 until 1988, she was launched a total of 144 times and saved an incredible 40 lives.After 1988 she was sold to Kent Fisheries in England and worked as a fishery patrol vessel around the waters of the UK before being bought by her current owner Peter Hizzet in 2003, who refitted and converted her for marine tours, diving and commercial charter work.
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Steve Ellwood
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Hi. Steve,thanks for the interesting piece of info.
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Hi Sydney
I came across your photograph as I was looking to see what Buckie has to offer from a photographic perspective. Planning a road tour right up the North East Coast to Inverness in a couple of weeks time :lol:
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From the vessels official web site @ http://www.geminiexplorer.co.uk/index.php
This is an ex RNLI Clyde Class Lifeboat still carrying her former service number.Built in 1974 at Bideford Yard in Glasgow. Based in Clovelly in England from 1974 until 1988, she was launched a total of 144 times and saved an incredible 40 lives.After 1988 she was sold to Kent Fisheries in England and worked as a fishery patrol vessel around the waters of the UK before being bought by her current owner Peter Hizzet in 2003, who refitted and converted her for marine tours, diving and commercial charter work.
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Steve Ellwood
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Regards Sydney.
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I came across your photograph as I was looking to see what Buckie has to offer from a photographic perspective. Planning a road tour right up the North East Coast to Inverness in a couple of weeks time :lol:
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Steve Ellwood
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