General images and stories relating to the Hartlepool and Seaton carew lifeboats.
A prototype RNLI Arun-class Lifeboat entering Hartlepool Dock Channel, painted in ‘flourescent’ Yellow, as opposed to the normal lifeboat 'Dayglow Orange’. The boat was visiting Lifeboats Stations around the British Isles for crew members to appraise the new colour scheme. Following the survey, the new colour was rejected.
More detail »Appeal for funds to build a lifeboat house in 1856.
More detail »Presentation of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough made to the crew members of the Hartlepool Lifeboats in 1986.
More detail »Hartlepool Inshore Lifeboat Station, Middleton, taken in the winter of 1975.
More detail »Letter from the Royal National Life-Boat Institution 1891 regarding the expenditure and funding of the service. It was sent to Clergy in Hartlepool asking them to start a Life-Boat Sunday in order to boost funds.
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