Lifeboats....Select a picture to enlarge

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The Sisters Carter of Harrogate and new lifeboat house in 1870. The coxwain, John Marshall, a pilot is standing at right in top hat.

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The Sisters Carter of Harrogate, Seaham's first RNLI lifeboat on her arrival in September 1870. She replaced the Friend of all Nations which had been bought by public subscription in 1854, this boat had been kept in a boathouse on the Terrace Beach but had proved too heavy to launch across the beach. This picture is transparent oils on a photograph painted in the 1870s

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Detail from previous pictures.

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Seaham lifeboat, the ' Skynner ', a 38ft x 8ft, ten oaredself righter, saved 87 lives from 1887 t0 1908

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The Elliot Galer, Seaham's fifth lifeboat arrived on August 11th 1911, pictured here on her arrival.