Southwold: The only way to christen an Atlantic 21 inflatable lifeboat is to take the cork out of the bottle. Senior Helmsman Roger Trigg performs the task after, on a wet Wednesday August 7, 1985, the station's new lifeboat was officially named Quiver by Mr R. Kiernan, managing director of Cassell Ltd. The lifeboat was provided by a legacy from Mrs D. Q. Presland and named by Mr Kiernan to forge a link between the present day ceremony and an appeal run by a 19th century magazine called the Quiver, published by John Cassell, which provided Southwold with two lifeboats of that name between 1865 and 1897. Captain John Leworthy, a vice-president of the RNL1 was present to hand the lifeboat into the care of the station.

photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris..