The modern lifeboat is an amazing combination of advanced
engineering, high-tech electronic navigation and communication
devices, and the latest life-saving equipment. Different types of
lifeboat are required for different coastal conditions around the
country so the RNLI's fleet has to includes boats capable of
launching from beaches, cliffs, slipways as well as those that stay
moored up in harbour.
Skegness All-Weather Lifeboats:
|
|
Skegness has no harbour for a lifeboat to be left
permanently afloat, and nowhere for a slipway, so the boats have to
be launched across the beach and off a trailer. Since 1825 when the
first lifeboat was put on station at Gibralter Point, the lifeboats
of Skegness have been launched by man-power, horses and, more
recently, tractors. The current all-weather lifeboat, a 12m
Mersey class boat weighs over 14 tons, but still has to
be pulled across the beach on a carriage.
|
| Dates |
|
Lifeboat |
|
Launches |
|
Saved |
|
| 1825-1864 |
|
Boats of the
Lincolnshire
Coast Shipwreck Association |
|
50 |
|
76 |
|
| 1864-1874 |
|
Herbert Ingram
I |
|
12 |
|
34 |
|
| 1874-1888 |
|
Herbert Ingram
II |
|
23 |
|
27 |
|
| 1888-1906 |
|
Ann, John and
Mary
ON-203 |
|
14 |
|
13 |
|
| 1906-1932 |
|
Samuel Lewis
ON-554 |
|
21 |
|
21 |
|
| 1932-1953 |
|
Anne Allan
ON-760 |
|
120 |
|
43 |
|
| 1953-1964 |
|
The Cuttle
ON-833 |
|
48 |
|
11 |
|
| 1964-1990 |
|
Charles Fred
Grantham
Oakley class ~
ON-977 |
|
165 |
|
96 |
|
| 1990-now |
|
Lincolnshire
Poacher
Mersey class ~
ON-1166 |
|
### |
|
### |
|
Skegness Inshore Lifeboats:
|
|
The current inshore lifeboat at Skegness,
Leicester Fox II, is a
4.9m (16ft) D class inflatable lifeboat capable of 20knots.
Although the ILB is now stationed at Skegness all year, the majority
of her launches take place during the summer months when endless
missing children and inflatable incidents keep the boat very busy.
|
| Dates |
|
Lifeboat |
|
Launches |
|
Saved |
|
| 1964 |
|
Unnamed |
|
5 |
|
3 |
|
| 1965-1972 |
|
D-58 Unnamed |
|
61 |
|
15 |
|
| 1973-1987 |
|
D-212 Unnamed |
|
281 |
|
83 |
|
| 1987-1994 |
|
D-326 Michel
Phillipe Wolvers |
|
115 |
|
38 |
|
| 1994-2002 |
|
D-460 Leicester Fox |
|
### |
|
### |
|
| 2002-now |
|
D-573 Leicester Fox II |
|
### |
|
### |
|
The figures for recent boats (marked ###) will be available when
service records back to 1995 have been added to the database.
|
|
