Name Jozef De Waey

HOWARD MARRYAT was built by J S White and Co. Ltd at the cost of £33,863, provided from a legacy from Mr Howard Marryat and a gift from his son, Mr R A Marryat of Guernsey. She is a 46ft 9” Watson motor lifeboat with airbag. She is of mahogany double diagonal construction with twin Thornycroft 380 diesel engines. 

 She was station lifeboat at Fishguard from 1957-81, and later served Barrow and Moelfre. After service, she was allocated to the relief fleet until sold out of service in 1989.

This vessel was the last of her class to be built and retains her open cockpit aft. Some conservation work will be carried out by her owner who has recently bought her and she may be returned to her appearance of the early 1960s.

A Letter of appreciation was sent to Second Coxswain Hughes for his part in a service on 9 September 1976 to the yacht Blasket, when five people were rescued and their boat was also saved. 

While in service with the RNLI, HOWARD MARRYAT launched 156 times and saved 88 lives. She was sold out of service in 1991.

Now called JOZEF DE WAEY she is based in Belgium where she has been renovated and in line with her original keeping.  Her name is in honour of the coxon of the local lifeboat who drowned together with three companions while trying to reach a French brick (Nominoë) stuck on a sandbank in a huge storm in 1863.

She has been installed with a 8hp bow thruster ,and replaced all the inspection panels on deck by an exact copy, and kept in storage over the winter periods.