Whitby's new Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield at her naming ceremony on 28 July 1989. Alongside her is the station's D class inflatable and in the background one of the town's former lifeboats Mary Ann Hepworth. Inset: HRH the Duchess of Kent takes a trip to sea on the lifeboat after the ceremony with coxswain Peter Thomson (right) and the RNLI's chief of operations Commodore George Cooper (left) (Photos courtesy Yorkshire Regional Newspapers}.