High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Culmer White was a 19th century lifeboat of the Isle of Thanet. With the resounding success of the ‘Mary White’ in 1851 and the subsequent presentation of the ‘Culmer White’ in 1853 soon afterward both the Coastguard and the R.N.L.I. were equipping their stations with White’s boats, from these humble origins and a developing reputation White’s boatyard grew to become John Samuel Whites of Cowes, a flourishing tradition developed which lasted well into the 1960’s with 134 White’s Lifeboat’s ordered, completed and delivered. Whites patented lifeboats featured a “double skin of planking with waterproof material in between”, on the whole “a fine example of skillful craftsmanship” ~ regrettably however they would not ‘self~right’. Ironically, John White declared, a lifeboat “has no reason to capsize at all and there is no reason why she should”. The first of these cost some 116/~, it was sent to Cardigan, on the Welsh coast. Following Thomas White’s lead, the first Ramsgate Lifeboat was installed in 1852, this was to be called ‘The Northumberland’, and built by James Beeching, for the Ramsgate Harbour Commission.

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