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Carnival 2013: Friday August 16th Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier

Carnival 2013 harbour trip as pirates, Curtis and sister

Carnival 2013 Pirates Curtis and sister waiting to go aboard for the Lifeboat Demonstration.

Carnival 2013: Pirate ship watching Lifeboat demonstration

Carnival 2013: Pirate ship watching Lifeboat demonstration

Carnival 2013: Watching Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier, from 'Ramblin' Rose' : photo Thomas Cowley

Carnival 2013: Watching Lifeboat Demonstration, from ‘Ramblin’ Rose’ : photo Thomas Cowley

After the Prize Giving there was a special treat for all who had booked a place on pirate ships, ‘Yarmouth Rose and Ramblin’ Rose’, courtesy of Pirate Peter Lemonius – the Lifeboat Demonstration off the Pier.

Carnival 2013: Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier : photo Thomas Cowley

Carnival 2013: Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier : photo Thomas Cowley

Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier

Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier: photio Thomas Cowley

 

 

 

Coxswain Howard Lester and his crew put on a fine display of rescue techniques, some involving the Coastguard Helicopter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carnival 2013: Lifeboat Demonstration of rescuing from the water off Yarmouth Pier . photo Thomas Cowley

Carnival 2013: Lifeboat Demonstration of rescuing from the water off Yarmouth Pier . photo Thomas Cowley

Those on the ‘Roses’ and those watching from the Pier enjoyed a great show, and some late evening sun.

Carnival 2013: Lifeboat Demonstration  off Yarmouth Pier using 'Y Boat' : photo Thomas Cowley

Carnival 2013: Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier using ‘Y Boat’ : photo Thomas Cowley

Carnival 2013 : End of Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier: photo Thomas Cowley

Carnival 2013 : End of Lifeboat Demonstration off Yarmouth Pier: photo Thomas Cowley

 

 

Eileen Smith, Charlie Lansdowne: 1920s, 1930s

My parents lived briefly in a house in Alma Place that I dont remember, and then they moved to South Street, to a tall cottage with an attic. Originally that cottage was called ‘Rose Cottage’ but mother changed it to ‘Halfway’ because it was halfway between Sandhard and where my aunts lived.

My father, Charlie Lansdowne, was one of the first crew members of the Lifeboat, the B.A.S.P. powered by a petrol engine and a sail.
I can just remember her being christened by the Prince of Wales. She was tied up on the pontoon the shoreside of the pier. Someone trod on HRH’s toe ‘Somebody’s treading on my bloody foot!’ he was heard to say.

Lifeboat crew 1920s

Lifeboat crew 1920s . Charlie Lansdowne, back row, third from left. Walter Cotton, second from right, front row.

My father was signalman on the lifeboat – there was no radio, they had to rely on signals, semaphore and morse. His boots were kept just inside the door so if the maroon went he could be gone straight away. On one occasion when the lifeboat went out, I can remember my mother asking Mrs Cotton, the Coxswain’s wife where they’d gone, but they never knew, of course, when they’d be back. Walter Cotton, the Coxswain had come from Brighstone. My father said if Walter was moved, he’d go with him, he was such a good coxswain

Sue Russell: Harbour, lifeboat, 1950s, 1960s

Lifeboat Crew 1966

Lifeboat Crew 1966

Our Father was lifeboat Coxswain for many years and the maroons were let off from our garden,  under the clothes line. We always had to make sure the line was empty of clothes otherwise they would have gone up too.  I was paid, I think it was two shillings and 6 pence, to time from when the maroons went off to when lifeboat left the harbour, which was a lot of money in those days. Sue Russell nee Hayles b 1940