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Harry Roberts, a popular and well respected member of the team at Morecambe RNLI is “hanging up the yellow wellies”!

Harry has seen plenty of action out in the bay over the last three decades. On February 4, 2004, the night of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, when 21 Chinese labourers drowned after being cut off by the tide – Harry was the commander of the RNLI’s hovercraft, and flew the vessel for 22 hours. Despite Harry and the crew being both physically and mentally exhausted, they relaunched again the next evening for another emergency call out. >click to read< 13:06