This project was a natural follow on if you like from the previous project that I undertook at this location. The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (R.N.L.I) have over two hundred and thirty lifeboat stations located along the coastline of Great Britain. However there is only one full-time crew and that is the one which is based at the Humber Lifeboat Station on Spurn Point.
After doing this project it increased my respect and admiration for these crews who risk their life at sea saving others in distress, they often go out in Force 8 and 9 Gales with waves often up to 30 feet high.
I managed to ruin one of my cameras during photography on this project (due to sea salt spray residue). At the same time on my second visit I ended up going out with them on a call-out (now I know why I decided all those years ago to join the Army). I was sick as a parrot, it was only a Force 5 or 6 with the sea rough to choppy.
Once again I found myself documenting the activities of another well established national charity that receives no aid from the Government and relies entirely upon the generous support of the Great British Public.
This project took place at roughly the same time when the R.N.L.I launched a major appeal for a new state of the art Lifeboat for the Humber Station at the cost of nearly £2M. I did donate some of my exhibition print sales from another project to this appeal.
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