Yorkshire hosts: Whitby's 44ft Waveney class escorts two Scottish lifeboats out of Whitby harbour on their journey north. The two visitors are the new 47ft Tyne class, Lord Saltoun, bound for Longhope and the 54ft Arun, City of Bradford IV, previously stationed at Number and on her way to take up station duty at Thurso. Every station to receive a new lifeboat sends a crew to Poole headquarters where they receive a week's training before the passage back to station. It is rare that two lifeboats from neighbouring stations make the delivery trip together and in this instance history has repeated itself. Eighteen years ago two new 9 knot Solent class lifeboats bound for Longhope and Thurso respectively sailed in company to take up station on the Pentland Firth. Now they have the 18 knot Tyne and Arun to replace them.

photograph by courtesy of Whiibv Gazette.