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200th Shanty celebrating the RNLI

When the RNLI was thinking about different ways of celebrating the anniversary of 200 years since Sir William Hilary founded the amazing charity in London in 1824 there were so many ideas. Up and down the country, at the 238 lifeboat stations and inland fund-raising teams, people were being creative, innovative and many ideas bore fruit. Martin Bruce, when he was chairman and press officer at RNLI Rye Harbour, was approached about writing a shanty. He runs a local shanty group in the village and has written several songs for them. His dilemma was how to fit two hundred years of bravery, history, volunteering and advances in technology into six verses. The idea was to use a group of established RNLI volunteer singers and The Dockyard Dogs were an ideal fit as they work in the south-east region, raise funds for Tower lifeboat station and sing shanties to raise funds.