This Blog is set up to diarise our purchase and re-build of a Lifeboat from the SS Canberra ( The Great White Whale ).
In looking for a boat to suit our living aboard in the near future, we came across an advert for "Midnight Oil", a lifeboat built by Schatt in 1960 for the P & O ship SS Canberra
After viewing her at Fareham Upper Quay Marina we fell for her and her history and struck a deal for £6000 to include 2 months rent of the mooring at Fareham. This was to be the start of an adventure with a boat that is very well documented on the www, with it's trials and tribulations, some of which are heroic and some very tragic.
