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Ramsgate Life Boat Returning from the Rescue, #867286

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Ramsgate Life Boat Returning from the Rescue, #867286
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The Ramsgte Lifeboat station was established in 1802, the first lifeboat being built by Greathead for the Trustees of Ramsgate Harbour. The station lapsed for some time before 1824 until 1851, when the Harbour Trustees purchased a lifeboat built by Beeching of Great Yarmouth. The Institution controlled the The Ramsgate Lifeboat station jointly with the Board of Trade from 1865 until 1922, when it took over full responsibility.
This Painting is alternatively know as "The Indian Chief Resue"
The accompanying graphic accounts of the wreck of the Indian Chief, and of the noble rescue of a portion of her crew by the Bradford self-righting Life-boat, stationed at Ramsgate, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th and 18th Jan., as related by the Mate of the Vessel and the Coxswain of the Life-boat. The Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION stationed at Aldborough (Suffolk), Clacton and Harwich (Essex), also proceeded to the scene of danger, but unfortunately were unable to reach the wreck. Happily the Bradford Life-boat persevered, amidst difficulties, hardships, and dangers hardly ever surpassed in the Life-boat service; but her reward was indeed great in saving eleven of our fellow-creatures, who must have succumbed, as their mates had a few hours previously, to their terrible exposure in bitterly cold weather for nearly thirty hours.

Indeed, Captain BRAINE, the zealous Ramsgate harbour-master, states in an official letter of the 8th January, in reference to this ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Overall Good condition </td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:C19th Century </td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK </td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:William Broome </td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:16</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:22</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Ramsgate Life Boat Returning from the Rescue,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional </td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas </td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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