Our next FoWT monthly meeting will take place on Monday 4th August 2025 – 7.00 pm (19.00 hrs) via Zoom.
“Saving Chapman – The Last Hilbre Island Lifeboat” by John Parr.
Our guest speaker on the night will be John Parr, who will talk about “Saving Chapman – The Last Hilbre Island Lifeboat”. The description of John’s talk:
“In 1998 I discovered the last Hilbre Island lifeboat, Chapman, derelict and deserted in a Lancashire boatyard. A lover of both lifeboats and Hilbre Island, I was determined to save the late Victorian boat.”
“My talk tells of how the lifeboat was saved and the volunteers who made this possible. Through the prism of Chapman’s own history, I tell of the story of lifeboats from the late 1700s, the pioneering work of the Liverpool Dock Trustees and those on the River Tyne and how lifeboat design developed through triumph and disaster. I lead on to the establishment of a lifeboat station at Hoylake in 1803 and 45 years later on Hilbre Island.”
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