StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Seaham Harbour

TiG - at Seaham

TiG - at Seaham

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20 Aug 2014 225
Coffee Pot No17 from Beamish visiting Seaham during Harbour Day 2014
WR (O&A) - rudder on view

WR (O&A) - rudder on view

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23 Aug 2014 5 2 872
Seaham Harbour day - stern / rudder for "William Riley" and the stem / bows of "George Elmy"
TiG - Maker's Plate

TiG - Maker's Plate

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23 Aug 2014 1 464
For Coffee Pot No17 - Head Wrightson No33 built Stockton on Tees 1873
WR (O&A) - at Seaham

WR (O&A) - at Seaham

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20 Aug 2014 3 3 1136
"William Riley" displayed on Harbour Day.
TiG - Charabanc

TiG - Charabanc

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20 Aug 2014 10 3 964
22nd June 2014 = Seaham Harbour Day. Motor display included this Morris charabanc (owned by Stuart Ritchie)
olb - at Seaham Harbour Day 2014

olb - at Seaham Harbour Day 2014

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20 Aug 2014 4 3 440
Comparing lifeboats.
olb - ON 594 and ON 873

olb - ON 594 and ON 873

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20 Aug 2014 587
Contrast in lifeboat designs - ON594 "William Riley" is a 34' self-righting 10-oared pulling lifeboat (Ruble Class) from 1909. - ON872 "George Elmy" is a 35' 6" non selfrighting Liverpool motor lifeboat. (More details will be posted in .......... www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/album/402869
BM - eve - at Seaham

BM - eve - at Seaham

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20 Aug 2014 1 2 490
Coffee Pot No17 visiting from Beamish. ( The event ? Harbour Day !)
SCB - "George Elmy" in North Dock

SCB - "George Elmy" in North Dock

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21 Jul 2013 2 727
The restored lifeboat, with some of the trust and volunteers responsible aboard, about to berth at the pontoon. The North Dock has recently been restored as well; transformed from a coal shipping port into a marina for fishing and pleasure craft.
SCB - entering the dock

SCB - entering the dock

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21 Jul 2013 606
"George Elmy" leads the way into the North Dock - as she passed the gates there was an almighty clap of thunder, despite the pouring rain earlier, the only rumble all day. A comment, perhaps?
SCB - at the slip

SCB - at the slip

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21 Jul 2013 608
Touching the stern onto the slipway, symbolically finishing the service interrupted by the fatal capsize in 1962. A wreath had been laid a few minutes earlier at the harbour bar. I wasn't the only one crying at this point.
SCB - Model in case

SCB - Model in case

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21 Jul 2013 1 626
Scale model of the "George Elmy" on display.
SCB - Crest

SCB - Crest

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21 Jul 2013 600
The original RNLI crest worn by "George Elmy"
SCB - on display 2

SCB - on display 2

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21 Jul 2013 612
The second set of boards, including the gold one about the loss of the "George Elmy" plus the crew and survivors from the coble "Economy" (nine lives lost by the lifeboat capsizing on the harbour bar)
SCB - on display 1

SCB - on display 1

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21 Jul 2013 551
First three callout boards......
SCB - full display

SCB - full display

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21 Jul 2013 3 4 1678
All the callout boards on display in the old boathouse, now a museum, at Seaham Harbour. The main display item is motoring down from Tynemouth....the restored "George Elmy"
oad - lost at Seaham

oad - lost at Seaham

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21 Jul 2013 1 471
this merle / tricolour border collie had been found straying in Seaham a couple of days earlier. not happy in strange and very noisy crowd.