Her restoration by NEMT began in 2019 and took about two years. She was built by Lancelot Lambert at the Lawe and was launched from the Lawe Building Yard, Dec 21st 1886. Miss Bedford, who lived in the South of England, bequeathed £1,000 to the Lifeboat Society Trustees for the lifeboat to be named Bedford in memory of her brother who was an engineer with the Tyne Improvement Commission.
Before:
Here are a couple of Youtube posts from a time before the Trust became the the equivalent of the Henry Frederick Swan Presevation Society:-
After:
Nemaritimetrust.org.uk was set up by the Chair of NEMT when he was stopped from re-writing the history of the two Trusts, NEMT and NFHT, in nemaritimetrust.co.uk in late 2019. When the author of the original site tried to correct some of the misinformation being given out on the NEMTnews Facebook Page, he was promptly excluded by the Chair.
In the next video, what Mr Renwick, author of NEMTnews and his pals Messrs, Parker and Pottenger fail to mention is that the skills acquired over many years on the restoration and preservation of the likes of the Favourite, Rachel Douglas, Royal Diadem II and other vessels such as the Tyne Life Boat, were used to great effect on the restoration of Henry Frederick Swan.