The RNLI sold the boat in 1930 for £70 to Blackpool Corporation, shortly after it entered service on the lake as the pleasure craft Samuel Fletcher
Stanley Park had been opened 4 years earlier by Lord Derby, K,G on 02 October 1926. The boating lake alone covers 26.5 acres.
A picture of the the lake and pleasure craft sailing on the boating lake at Stanley Park, Blackpool in circa 1934.
Stanley Park c1959
The pleasure craft was the former Blackpool lifeboat Samuel Fletcher.
Stanley Park 1980 – Photo Dave Forshaw