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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For the RNLI’s SOS Day 2011 it is our intention to row from Rye Harbour to Hastings and back (approximately 18 miles) in a lifeboat built in 1909.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Crew at Rye Harbour, with help from the neighbouring crew at Dungeness will make up the 10 oarsmen needed to row the boat.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The William Riley of Birmingham and Leamington is a 34 foot long 8 foot wide rowing (pulling) lifeboat that weighs just under 3 tons. Once she had completed her trials she went into service in August 1909. The William Riley served as a lifeboat for 22 years and in 1931 was sold and converted into a cabin cruiser. She was discovered in 2005 and restored over the following 2 and a half years.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">show your support for our volunteer lifeboat crews who risk their lives to save others at sea. Your funds will enable our charity to continue its lifesaving work.</span></p>
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