SIR WILLIAM HILLARY lifeboat 1930

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£1.30 - First Motor Lifeboat, 1930 - The first fast motor lifeboat was designed to reach casualties rapidly. SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, named after the RNLI's founder, was developed in response to an increasing number of aircraft flying over the Channel, and coming down at sea.
The new lifeboat, powered by two 375hp petrol engines, had a top speed of around 18 knots, making her nearly twice as fast as other motor lifeboats of her time.
She was the first lifeboat to have a cabin. She was equipped with jets for spraying fire-extinguishing fluid and could accommodate 50 casualties below deck.

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The first fast motor lifeboat to arrive at the newly reopened Dover Lifeboat Station in 1930 was one of a kind.
over’s 1930 fast motor lifeboat, SIR WILLIAM HILLARY
The first fast motor lifeboat to arrive at the newly reopened Dover Lifeboat Station in 1930 was one of a kind.
Designed to reach casualties rapidly, SIR WILLIAM HILLARY – named after the RNLI’s founder – was in response to an increasing number of aircraft flying over the Channel, and coming down at sea.
Built by Thornycroft at Platt’s Eyot, Hampton-on-Thames, and moored afloat, the new lifeboat – powered by two 375hp petrol engines – had a top speed of around 18 knots, making her nearly twice as fast as other motor lifeboats of her time.
Her onboard electricity supply provided lighting for the crew, as well as powering a wireless radio, searchlight, throwline night tracers and a Morse code signalling lamp.
She was the first lifeboat to have a cabin, giving crew a degree of protection against the weather.
The lifeboat was also equipped with jets for spraying fire-extinguishing fluid and could accommodate 50 casualties below deck.
The crew of SIR WILLIAM HILLARY received gallantry awards and Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for rescuing 16 crew members from the stricken trawler BLACKBURN ROVERSILLIAM, which was on anti-submarine patrol in the Channel in November 1939.
After suffering a fouled propeller, the trawler was blown towards a minefield on a south-westerly gale.
Ten years after entering service at Dover, SIR WILLIAM HILLARY became an air-sea rescue boat for the Admiralty.

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The RNLI ordered a new and special lifeboat for their Dover station.
Named SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, after the founder of the RNLI, she was 64-foot, (19.5 metres) x 14-foot (4.7metres) with a draught of 4-foot 9 inches (1.45 metres). The skin was of double teak on oil timbers with steel bulkheads formed into eight watertight compartments. She had two 12-cylinder 375hp engines that gave her a top speed of eighteen knots. On board, there were two cabins with room for 50 people and she was lit by electricity. She had an electric driven capstan, a search light, a line-throwing gun illuminated by tracers at night to a distance of 80 yards, a Morse signalling lamp lit by electricity and wireless telephony that could take and deliver messages over 50miles. She had a plant that could throw jets of fire-extinguishing fluid, oil sprayers at the side for spreading oil to calm down rough water and ropes for hauling the casualties on aboard when it was not possible to use more conventional ways.
The SIR WILLIAM HILLARY was launched on 22 November 1929 and after undergoing trials, including a 4-hour endurance test, came on station before the year had ended. Kept in the Bay, she was instantly available should the summons occur. The crew were ferried out in the motorboat WILLIAM MYATT, that was kept in the Camber, Eastern Dockyard, where there was always someone on duty. The SIR WILLIAM HILLARY first reported call out was to a collision in the Channel on 2 March 1930. The Japanese 5,500-ton cargo vessel MOKE MARU  had collided with the coastal vessel MACKVILLmof London, causing damage to both. The SIR WILLIAM HILLARY escorted both ships into the harbour.

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Her faith.

Culver Air-Sea Rescue Service - yacht SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, motor anti-submarine boat MA/SB.34, both at Culver, RAF high speed launches HSL No.103 at Calshot (Training Duties), No.112 fitting out for foreign service, No.119 at Gosport And what else i came across on a google search- A Motor boat of 40 ton, she was built in 1929. Requisitioned on 24th October 1940 and apparently used as an R.A. F. Air Sea Rescue vessel until 4th November 1940. From 5th November 1940 she was placed in Naval Service as an Air Rescue Craft based at Culver, Isle of Wight and was compulsorily acquired on 13th November 1940. Re-allocated to Air Sea Rescue duties at Lyme Regis on 17th November 1943 and remained in service until handed over for disposal on 1st October 1946. During her Naval Service she was manned by R.N. crew,
and is recorded as being at Southampton during January to July 1942, Yarmouth - July to October 1943 (refitting) Lyme Regis - November to December 1943. Portland -December 1943 to January 1944 (repairs) Lyme Regis - January to March 1944. Weymouth -March to May 1944 Padstow - May to June 1944. Falmouth - June to July 1944 (repairs) Lyme Regis July to October !944. Falmouth - October to December 1944 (repairs & refit) Clyde and Cambeltown until April 1946.

Shortly after World War II she was purchased by a Mr Muirhead and fitted out as a luxury cruiser powered by two Gardiner diesel engines and having no less than 10 berths, she was renamed ISLE OF COLONSAY and was used for some 30 years around the coasts of the British Isles.
In 1976 she was sold to a Mr Sim and again in 1984 she changed hands. On her way to the Mediterranean she went to the rescue of another vessel in the Bay of Biscay and towed her to Lisbon but shortly after leaving to resume her own journey she was struck by a large tanker and sunk without loss of life off Cape St Vincent.

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