One of a series of six paintings prepared in the RNLI display studio at Poole by Hilary Dear and David Simmons for the Indian Chief centenary exhibition at Ramsgate Harbour's Clock House. This painting, by David Simmons, taken from an old print, shows Ramsgate lifeboat, Bradford, leaving harbour under tow of the tug Vulcan in the severe gales of January 5, 1881..