A 100-year-old lifeboat has been relaunched after a
20-year restoration, at the height of a spring tide on 9 May 2024. The vessel,
Ex RNLI Manchester and Salford, once rescued mariners on the Manchester Ship
Canal and Irish Sea. It has now taken to the water in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire,
after being restored by owner Mark Raynes. The retired engineer, from
Shevington, near Wigan, came to the rescue when the boat, built in 1924, was
washed up and abandoned on a beach at Deganwy in north Wales.
