page_title: Harwich Lifeboat Station
section_title: Current Lifeboats
hierarchical_section_title: Harwich Lifeboat Station / The New Lifeboat Station / Current Lifeboats
caption_attribution_description: English: On a shout The lifeboat off on a shout; the crew came racing to the station and then they were off, Harwich Essex.
context_page_description: Harwich Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in the town of Harwich in the English county of Essex. The station is positioned on the southern side at the mouth of the River Orwell estuary. The station serves a particularly busy section of coastline with Harwich being a very busy ferry terminal. Across the estuary is the Port of Felixstowe which is the United Kingdom's busiest container port. There is also a considerable amount of commercial traffic as well as a great number of pleasure craft using the area.
context_section_description: Currently (2013) Harwich has two lifeboats on station. The Albert Brown (ON 1202) is a Severn-class, fast afloat boat (FAB 3), which was built by Green Marine in 1995. she is an AWB and is 17 meters long, 5.5 meters wide with a depth of 1.38 meters. She has a top speed of 25 Knots and a range of 250 nautical miles. The Albert Brown was financed after a bequest from the late Victoria Maisie Brown to commemorate her late husband Albert Brown. The lifeboat was christened by Terry Waite CBE on 25 May 1997.
caption: The Harwich Lifeboat Albert Brown (ON 1202)
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