Solent Rescue
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Solent Rescue Independent Lifeboat is a inshore rescue lifeboat, not run by the RNLI, based at Lepe Country Park on the north shore of the Solent in Hampshire in England, south of the New Forest. It was set up in 1971 as a beach rescue unit, and developed into a full lifeboat station
The organisation operate within a specified area as agreed with Her Majesty's Coastguard. This covers 33 square miles of water and spans from West Cowes in the Central Solent to Hurst Castle in the western fringes of this inshore waterway.
Solent Rescue is one of seven independent lifeboats who make up the Solent Sea Rescue Organisation, each of these units have equipment that is tailor made/selected for their unique areas of operation.
