lifesaving

I think that is Shelley Beach in Manly in the background. Never knew it was called Cabbage Tree Bay, according to - GoogleMapsSatelliteView. Just around the corner from the Manly Surf Club.

beachcomber australia Thanks Beachcomber, it looks good to us. The search for which carnival/year begins :)

1920

Alison Guesdon Any proof? ! From the North Steyne SLSC website - " Club legend Rastus Evans was the first ever to take a boat crew out and “crack the bommy”, which still breaks dauntingly in front of North Steyne SLSC in big swells today. He recalled the monster wave stood the boat perpendicular. “Then the boat and crew disappeared as the wave came down ... there was nothing but swirling foam. The boat drove on underwater and I was sure they’d all be drowned.” They survived and the North Steyne boat Bluebottle, so named because they stung everyone on the beach to pay for it, dominated surf carnivals and conducted astonishing rescues in giant swells for years come. North Steyne SLSC is the club that invented the distinct coloured caps worn by lifesavers all over the country today. It also held 21 of the first 26 bronze medallions ever awarded, is still the only surf club to have three gold medal winners at a single Olympic Games –1924 in Paris – and is the only club to win eight Australian open surf boat titles. " I think this might be the legendary H. C. "Rastus" Evans as sweep on the near boat. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22rastus+Evans%22&am...

I believe this should actually be labelled "Lundin Lifeboats" Perhaps they are being tested in June 1914, for a honeymoon trip across the North Atlantic query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F4061EFB385A12...

Right you are, cowboy! The metal lifeboats were designed by Andreas P. Lundin of New York for the Welin Marine Equipment Company. Lundin filed at least nine patents for lifeboats and davits during the period 1908-1914. Not sure if these boats were part of the transatlantic honeymoon stunt. The NY Times refers to them as "a thirty-six foot Lundin power lifeboat towing a twenty-eight foot Lundin decked lifeboat." The newlyweds left New York on July 30th, 1914, with a crew of four, and made it as far as Boston. They were ordered back to Long Island on account of the war. Lucky for them!

ah I knew someone would know what happened with that stunt!

Thank you for providing us detailed information about the lifeboats, and we will correct the title.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the demonstration of the Lundin Lifeboat: Improved version of the Lundin Lifeboat; photo from Bain's 1914 photostream (this is the one that attempted the Atlantic crossing):

Interesting hairstyles...

Strapping young ladies!~

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Great stuff! Thanks Quasymody, interesting re the Whiteheads. I've sent the image to one of the local history societies - hopefully they can use it!

Lovely photo. Is there a good reason why it's geo-tagged to Salford, Lancashire, rather than somewhere in Australia? If there really is a connection, please share.

That got me thinking too. Possibly due to links with Beatrice Kerr who did a tour in the area about that time - collections.sea.museum/en/objects/164484/program-for-a-co...