41ft Beach 'Aldeburgh' Motor Lifeboat
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The 41 ft Beach 'Aldeburgh' Motor Lifeboat was a non self-righting displacement hull lifeboat built between 1931 and 1949 and operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution between 1931 and 1979.
 RNLB Abdy Beauclerk (ON 751) by Eric Ravilious
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | 41ft Beach 'Aldeburgh' Motor |
| Builders: |
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| Operators: |
 RNLI |
| Preceded by: | Various |
| Succeeded by: | 42ft Watson |
| Cost: | £5,600-£15,011 |
| Built: | 1931-1949 |
| In service: | 1931-1979 |
| Completed: | 5 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Retired: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 41ft Beach 'Aldeburgh' Motor |
| Displacement: | 15 tons |
| Length: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Beam: | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) |
| Propulsion: | (As built) 2x35bhp Weyburn AE6 6-cylinder petrol |
| Speed: | 71⁄2 knots |
| Crew: | 10 |
History[edit]
The 41 ft Beach motor was designed for service at stations which required a larger and more powerful boat than the standard carriage launched types, but which could not accommodate the larger Watson types through boathouse or slipway constraints. The 41ft Beach was regarded as a development of the 'Norfolk and Suffolk' type and became known as the 'Aldeburgh' type after the station at which the first boat served. They are not to be confused with the 41ft Watson motor lifeboats, which though similar in appearance were developed from the larger Watsons. Production ran from 1931 to 1936 and four boats were completed. In 1949 a single new boat was built before attention turned to the 42ft Watson type which appeared in 1954, of which a beach variant was included.
Description[edit]
The 41 ft Beach had an aft cockpit with a cabin ahead of it containing the engine controls. Three of the five boats had a small forward shelter, and they could carry up to 65 people in bad weather. The designs of the boats varied, with two hull variants and three different deck layouts. The first of the class, Abdy Beauclark, had bulwarks forwards, while her close sister The Viscountess Wakefield had them both fore and aft. Charles Cooper Henderson and Charles Dibdin were identical when built, with large endboxes. The boats carried two or three sails as an auxiliary to the twin Weyburn AE6 6-cylinder petrol engines. A revised boat, Beryl Tollemache, was built in 1949 with a survivors' cabin forward and an aluminium shelter replacing the wood of the previous boats. In 1963 two of the boats were re-engined with 47 bhp Ford-based Parsons Porbeagle 4-cylinder diesel engines.
Fleet[edit]
ON is the RNLIs sequential Official Number.
| ON | Name | Built | Builder | In service | Stations | Re-engined | Comments |
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| 751 | Abdy Beauclerk | 1931 | J. Samuel White, Cowes | 1931-1958 | Aldeburgh | -- | Sold in 1959. |
| 761 | Charles Cooper Henderson | 1933 | Groves & Guttridge, Cowes | 1933-1974 | Dungeness (1933-1957)
Relief Fleet (1957-1974) |
1963- Parsons Porbeagle | Sold in 1976. |
| 762 | Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) | 1933 | Groves & Guttridge, Cowes | 1933-1959 | Walmer | -- | Sold in 1961. |
| 783 | The Viscountess Wakefield | 1936 | Groves & Guttridge, Cowes | 1936-1940 | Hythe | -- | Lost on beaches of Dunkirk 31 May 1940. Never recovered. |
| 859 | Beryl Tollemache | 1949 | Sussex Yacht Co., Shoreham | 1949-1979 | Eastbourne (1949-1977)
Relief Fleet (1977-1979) |
1963- Parsons Porbeagle | Sold in 1979. |
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