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Skegness Lifeboat Station is an RNLI operated lifeboat station located in the town of Skegness in the English county of Lincolnshire.〔OS Explorer map: Skegness, Alford & Spilsby: (1:25 000): ISBN 0319238229〕 The station is located on the south-east coast north of the Wash and south of the Humber estuary. This is an area of the British coastline which is characterised by many shoals and constantly changing sandbanks, many of which lie between the town and the East Dudgeon Lightship.〔Skegness Lifeboats – An illustrated History. Author: Leach, Nicholas. Publisher:Landmark Publishing Ltd. Year Published:2008. ISBN 978-1-84306-423-7〕 The current station was built in1990 and was the first in the British Isles built especially to house a Mersey-class lifeboat. The boathouse also accommodates an Inshore Lifeboat and a souvenir shop.〔For Those In Peril – The Lifeboat Service of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Station by Station. Author: Leach, Nicholas. Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd, First Issue 1999. Work:Part 1, East Coast of England – Berwick to Hastings, Page 42, Skegness. ISBN 1 85794 129 2〕 There are currently two lifeboats stationed at Skegness (2013). They are the Inshore D-class Lifeboat ''Peterborough Beer Festival IV'' and the Mersey-class AWB ''Lincolnshire Poacher'' (ON 1166). == History == The first lifeboat service in Skegness was organized by the Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association who placed a lifeboat at the Gibraltar Point coastguard station. In 1859 the lifeboat and boathouse was moved from Gibraltar Point to a position in Skegness, among sand dunes to a location now called Lifeboat Avenue.
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