[6] The Aldeburgh station records show that during the rest of the Second World War, Lucy Lavers along with Abdy Beauclerk were called out on many occasions.

Both Lifeboats spent long hours searching exhaustively for survivors but on most occasions all they found was wreckage or patches of oil.

The Lucy Lavers served at Aldeburgh for 19 years, during which she and her crew undertook 30 operations which saved 7 lives.

During her service in the RNLI’s reserve fleet at Wells-next-the-Sea, Sheringham, and Rhyl, she undertook a further 52 missions, saving 37 lives.

[7] In 1968 she was finally sold out of the fleet by the RNLI and began a career as a pilot boat[8] in the port of Saint Helier, Jersey.

[8] In 1997 she was finally retired and her engine canopy and some of her remaining fixtures and fittings were stripped out and used in the restoration of Howard D (ON 797), an ex-Saint Helier lifeboat.

Following the removal of these parts her diagonal mahogany hull, which was still in good condition, and she was sent to Simon Evans Boat Yard on the River Yonne, in Sens, France.

[4] In 2012 the National Lottery Heritage Fund awarded a grant to Rescue Wooden Boats £99.300[9] towards the restoration of the Lucy Lavers.