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Joy and Charles Betby (12-32).
The Lifeboat featured in this image is the Mersey Class Lifeboat Joy and Charles Betby (12-32) that was deployed to the Lifeboat station at Berwick on Tweed. Introduced into service in 1993 she is seen crossing the Solent Southampton in February 2007. She was number 32 out of a total of 37 in her Class and as far as I can establish (2018) is still in service. I presume that the reason she was so far South when this image was captured was because she had been undergoing maintenance/service work at the RNLI's Isle of Wight shipyard.
Author: John Leary
Photo size: 2.7 Mpixels (7.63 MB uncompressed) - 2000x1333 pixels (6.7x4.4 in / 16.9x11.3 cm at 300 ppi)