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150 years ago today, Saturday 3rd August 1872, fishermen, residents and a number of invited dignitaries thronged Greystones for the launch of the lifeboat, Sarah Tancred, the 233rd lifeboat to be placed by the RNLI around the coast of Britain and Ireland. The report carried in The Irish Times two days later noted “that the lifeboat was decorated on Saturday with a profusion of flags and was drawn in procession from the railway station to the beach on a stout four wheeled truck dragged by six horses. Her crew was on board, as hardy a lot of salts as one would wish to see, all of them in red Guernsey shirts and cork jackets”. Read Gary Paine's full account over on the Guide: www.greystonesguide.ie/the-lifeboat-that-rocked/