Name Lucy Lavers

LUCY LAVERS served at Aldeburgh from 1940 and went into reserve from 1959 to 1968. She was launched 82 times in total and saved 44 lives. She was later sold out of service and re-named L'ESPERANCE. In 1997 she was stripped in Jersey to restore another lifeboat and was then taken on by the Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust. She was never restored by them, but stored (as little more than a hull) in various boatyards on the South Coast before being tracked down by the Rescue Wooden Boats Charity to whom she was donated.

Restoration work was started on her in December 2011. Lucy Lavers restoration was completed as planned in time to return to Dunkirk for the 75th anniversary of Operation Dynamo in May 2015, in company with about 50 other Dunkirk Little Ships.

Since July 2015 she has been moored in Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk (where she twice served during the 1960s as relief lifeboat) and gives trips afloat.

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