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Ramsgate: Sunday June 9 was the day Ramsgate's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was dedicated and named Ramsgate Enterprise. Mr Martin Lewis, grandson of the late Mrs Holway who had left a sum of money to the station, is seen here unveiling two plaques. The first commemorates his grandmother's gift which paid for the new boathouse and the second, the people of Ramsgate who provided the new lifeboat. Wing Commander J. D. Ward, Officer Commanding RAF Mansion officially named Ramsgate Enterprise after she had been handed over by Councillor L. Richard Taylor, Mayor of Ramsgate, to Mr Graham Newman of the RNLI's committee of management..

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