The boat was a motor lifeboat of the type designed for just such a heavy sea.

The first motor lifeboat arrived on station in 1922.

It was closed at the end of 1944 as other stations in the area could provide cover with their newer motor lifeboats.

The vessels were the first motor lifeboats designed to automatically right themselves if overturned.

The motor lifeboats were merely the shepherds for the rafts.

A frequent sight in the harbor is the station's 47-foot Motor Lifeboat.

The first motor lifeboat at Ilfracombe was placed on station in March 1936.

The first starboard motor lifeboat, boat S1, capsized shortly after being launched.

One exhibit shows an actual 44-foot motor lifeboat atop a simulated 30-foot wave during an ocean storm.

The explosion of the second torpedo overturned the motor lifeboat and also blew three men from another boat into the water.

The starboard stern motor lifeboat was blown out of her davits and broken in two.

When the station received its first motor lifeboat, a No. 2 station was established located in the old boathouse.

Five years later its 'pulling and sailing' lifeboat was replaced by a new motor lifeboat.

'We do have a little hand-held compass aboard the motor lifeboat, the one I took out today, but that's useless.

In 1939 the station's pulling and sailing boat was withdrawn and replaced by a motor lifeboat.

Richard Oakley worked out how to use shifting water ballast to create a self-righting motor lifeboat.

Brixham was equipped with a motor lifeboat in 1922 which could cover a larger sea area in more extreme conditions.

The vessels were the first motor lifeboats where a single crew member handled both the engine throttle and steering wheel.

The St Ives boat now covered a larger area, but this was made easier in 1933 with the arrival of a first motor lifeboat.

Pwllheli received its first motor lifeboat in 1930 and because it was kept afloat, the boathouse went unused until 1953.

Quickly the crew of the ship left the wireless room and scrambled down ropes on to the motor lifeboat Agnes Cross.

The vessels were the first steel-hulled motor lifeboats - earlier vessels had hulls of wood.

US Coast Guard 44-foot motor lifeboat restoration project.

The RNLI introduced motor lifeboats to the area in the 1930s.

Harriot Dixon went on to be the longest serving motor lifeboat at Cromer.