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Surf Life Saving boats, including the North Steyne club, racing on harbour

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    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.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Thanks Beachcomber, it looks good to us. The search for which carnival/year begins :)
  • Alison Guesdon said:
    1920
  • beachcomber australia said:
    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...

Photographic postcard of 'Mrs Whitehead's Life Saving Team'

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • gaudy thread said:
    Interesting hairstyles...
  • KenjiB_48 said:
    Strapping young ladies!~
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [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!
  • vernon93 said:
    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.
  • irrelevant.com said:
    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...

June 29, 1910

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • pyriet said:
    interesting wheel-system
  • XPAT-Polska said:
    A wonderful image.
  • blackpoolbeach said:
    The volunteers of the RNLI are still at Tramore. It must be the only Royal organisation remaining in the Republic of Ireland. www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/ireland
  • Peggy Bawn Press said:
    Martin Black, author of our publication, ‘G.L. Watson – the Art and Science of Yacht Design’, came up with the following information on this Tramore lifeboat, named “Henley”, after her donor, Mrs G. Henley of Highbury. She was designed by G.L. Watson, Glasgow, Scotland (design no. 233) in 1892, and built by Chambers & Colby of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, as a sailing and pulling, non-self-righting lifeboat. She weighed 3 tons 5 cwt (very light for a lifeboat) and was specifically designed to be very lightweight to allow launching from the soft beach at Tramore. “Henley” was 32 ft long with a beam of 8 ft and carried 10 rowers. “Henley” was based at Tramore from 1893 to 1918 and saved 19 lives. More information on G.L. Watson’s pulling and sailing lifeboats here: peggybawn.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/the-weekend-watson-cha...