page_title: Margate Lifeboat Station
section_title: New Lifeboat Station
hierarchical_section_title: Margate Lifeboat Station / New Lifeboat Station
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of the Mersey – class lifeboat RNLB Leonard Kent (ON 1177) inside the boathouse at Margate Lifeboat Station.
context_page_description: Margate Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in Margate in the English county of Kent. The station is over 150 years old and during that time, its crews have launched to many notable services including more than 10 awards for gallantry. Great sadness has also been experienced with the loss of ten members of its crews while saving others at sea.
context_section_description: Work began on the present lifeboat station in March 1978 and was carried out by the Canterbury division of Wiltshire Construction Company Ltd with the work to be completed in 20 weeks. The new Rother-class lifeboat Silver Jubilee (ON 1046)
  was handed over in November 1978 and she performed her first service from the new station on 27 October. In the mid-1980s the Margate Station Committee split into two organizations; the Margate RNLI Fundraising Branch and the Margate Lifeboat Operational Committee, with the latter solely concerned with the day-to-day running of the lifeboat station. In 1991 the Silver Jubilee was replaced by the Mersey-class lifeboat Leonard Kent (ON 1177).
  In 1996 the RNLI submitted plans for the boathouse to be enlarged and upgraded, and the work including improved crew facilities, was completed by September 1998.
caption: RNLB Leonard Kent (ON1177)
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