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The Arthur Lionel was the gift of Sir Thomas Robin, of Co. Cork. She was Guernsey's last pulling/sailing lifeboat and served the islands for 17 years. In 1929, the first motorised vessel, the Queen Victoria, took up the station in St. Peter Port; in 1940, when the island was occupied by enemy forces, this boat was in England for her annual overhaul, where she remained for the duration, serving at various R.N.L.I. stations.
Sea Breezes February 1974
Guernsey SG95

Weight 3.5 ton, dim. 35 x 10ft.
12 Oars.
crew 13/15.
Building cost £1.000
In service till 1929,
1939 Returned to the U.K. where she was stationed in the Minehead Lifeboat Station, Somerset.
1940 Destroyed by a bomb.


Guernsey 1974 3p sg95, scott92. 1999 44p sg831, scott688. 1924 1.71P sg?, Scott?