More from our historian Les Bridgewater
The Twentieth Century was not very kind to the R.N.L.I. , it saw the loss of 16 lifeboats. 13 were lost on a shout the other 3 by enemy action.
|
YEAR |
O.N. |
LIFEBOAT |
STATION |
|
1900 |
367 |
Robert Henderson |
Montrose |
|
1900 |
421 |
James Stevens No4 |
Padstow |
|
1903 |
436 |
James Stevens No12 |
Mumbles |
|
1905 |
385 |
John Alvins |
Wick |
|
1914 |
546 |
Helen Blake |
Fishguard |
|
1914 |
622 |
Alex Tulloch |
Peterhead |
|
1916 |
524 |
William & Emma |
Salcombe |
|
1920 |
431 |
Covent Garden |
Caister |
|
1928 |
661 |
Mary Stanford |
Rye Harbour |
|
1939 |
743 |
Joseph Sara & Eliza Styche |
St Ives |
|
1940 |
783 |
Vicountess Wakefield |
Hythe (Dunkirk) |
|
1969 |
806 |
Rachel & Mary Evans |
Weston Super Mare |
|
1981 |
954 |
Solomon Browne |
Penlee |
Destroyed by enemy action were
|
YEAR |
O.N. |
NAME |
LOCATION |
|
1940 |
842 |
Millie Walton |
Bombed in boatyard |
|
1940 |
843 |
Charles Henley Ashley |
Bombed in boatyard |
|
1940 |
625 |
William Henry Wilkinson |
Bombed St Helier |
In 1940 the Royal Navy captured a Belgian and French lifeboat. They were given to the RNLI and used until the end of the war when they were returned to their home Countries.
