FOUR youngsters will ceremoniously name the region's latest lifeboat on Saturday.
The new Atlantic 75 boat will be named at The Piazza, in Hartlepool Marina, by 11-year-old triplets Lucy, Katy and Jack Madden and eight-year-old Sophie Madden.
The children were among hundreds who took part in a BBC Radio Cleveland appeal to buy the lifeboat.
They raised money from a church collection organised by their grandmother, Irene Madden, of Darlington, in memory of their grandfather, who was a sailor. The boat will be named BBC Radio Cleveland, in honour of all the fundraisers.
A service of dedication will be led by Ken Comforth, port chaplain at the Mission of Seafarers
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