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YORK Rescue Boat is to get a new lifeboat - and will name it after a teenager whose death in the River Foss spurred his parents to raise funds to buy the boat.
Spirit of Sonny is set to be delivered by the end of the year and will go operational once volunteers have undergone the necessary conversion training.
Sonny Ferry, 19, of Rutland, drowned in April 2019 at the end of a night out, and rescue boat crew located his body near Blue Bridge.
The following week, his parents, Kate and Steve, met at The Press’s HQ with some of the boat volunteers to thank them, and pledged to raise £45,000 for a replacement lifeboat.