RNLB Queen Victoria is an historic shore-based lifeboat, built in 1887, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), and now preserved at The Shipwreck Centre, Arreton, Isle of Wight.
[1][2] A rowing boat, Queen Victoria operated from Bembridge on the Isle of Wight from 1887 to 1902.
[2] In 1989 Martin Woodward, then coxswain of the Bembridge lifeboat, purchased Queen Victoria[2] and, after several years of fundraising, the boat was finally restored in 1998,[1] at the Classic Boat Museum, in East Cowes.
[2] The boat is now under the stewardship of the Isle of Wight Historic Lifeboat Trust, a registered charity, and is seaworthy.
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