RNLI: Robert Theophilus Garden (1910)
From Graces Guide
NB This is a subsection of Royal National Lifeboat Institution
1910 Lifeboat built by Thames Ironworks as a Single Screw Self Righter at the Blackwall yard. Donated to the RNLI by Mr Robert Theophilus Garden, London and Co, Clare.
Named 'Robert Theophilus Garden'.
- Length: 40ft
- Boom: 10'6
- Weight: 10t 11cwt
- Crew: 12/9
- Engine 40hp (4-cyl model C).
Served for the RNLI at Wicklow from 1911-1937, making a total of 42 launches and saving 31 lives.
1937 Sold in May to Stourport Yacht Club as 'Sirius'.
1990s Used as a houseboat in Milford Haven Marina.
2003 Sold to Sheerness and then transported to Iceland.
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Sources of Information
- Current Owner (Dec 2017)