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English: View towards the Lifeboat Station. And slipways on the beach below the village of Mundesley > 968098. See > 968133 for a closer view. As a result of a drowning and near drowning in 1971 of a man and his wife half a mile off the beach at Mundesley, the Mundesley Parish Council called a meeting to discuss the feasibility of establishing an Inshore Lifeboat at Mundesley. It was decided to set up an independent rescue unit, funded and manned from within the village. In the spring of 1972, a Zodiac inflatable was borrowed from a local businessman and established in a temporary boathouse on the promenade at the east end of the village, followed by the purchase of a 4M Avon Sea Rider semi- rigid inflatable wholly owned by the Service. A wooden site hut was donated by a Bacton Gas Site contractor and converted into a boathouse. The boat is on call 365 days per year, 24 hours a day. Training is undertaken all year round on a regular basis and the crew are on duty every Sunday and Bank Holiday during the summer. The new state of the art station, funded entirely by donations received by the public, was built in 2006 by Blyth's and Sons from Sheringham. The station consists of a boat hall, a drying room holding all of the crew's personal protection equipment such as Polar Bear drysuits, Gecko helmets and Crewsaver lifejackets. Upstairs consists of four main rooms. The lookout is situated so that almost the whole of the Mundesley guard is visible. It has charts and two vhf radios for constant communications with the boat. There are also a crew training room, a galley/kitchen area and the Coxswains' office. http://www.mundesleylifeboat.co.uk/Aboutus.html