More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.

The shallow shelving foreshore can be rough in onshore winds - and the station's Atlantic usually has to make a bow-first net recovery. The sandy beach beyond the slipway can shift to expose rocky patches and a regular watch is kept with a board in the boathouse showing the latest situation.

Kilkeel - Ireland Division Kilkeel's lifeboat is the only davit-launched Atlantic in Northern Ireland, and is housed in a 1986-built boathouse on a site still known to the locals as Annies Cottage, after a long-gone building which once stood there.

The main photo looks south east along the South Pier towards an entrance which can be shallow at spring low water and tricky when a strong south easterly is blowing.

The small building just behind the new boathouse in the main photo is the old boathouse, used when Kilkeel operated a D class inflatable.

Hoylake -- West Division Hoylake's distinctive 1803-built boathouse (the larger, left hand building of the two in the close-up below) faces almost north on the town's Promenade-with water deep enough for the station's Mersey sometimes 1'/4 miles away across the sandy foreshore! The smaller of the two buildings is the tractor house, with the crew room above and a recent extension to the rear.

Aberdovey -- West Division The boathouse for Aberdovey's Atlantic shares a building with the Dovey Yacht Club, its slip running down towards the jetty once used by commercial vessels in the harbour's heyday.

The River Dovey runs out to the sea to the left in the main photo, and the expanse of sand in the estuary can be glimpsed in this photo taken at about half tide. There is plenty of water for the Atlantic at the bottom of the slip - so much so that at low water the trailer would drop into deep water and the lifeboat is launched from the sand alongside it! Hunting Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices Sin by Sin - £13.00, 10in by 10in- £18.00, 12in by 12in-£21.00, 20in by 16in-£43.00.

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