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Lifeboat service
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Wayne the boy from OZ | Report | 10 Oct 2004 05:23 |
Ancestor In UK Lifeboat Service Hi I was talking with someone who had an ancestor in the UK Lifeboat. But I cant find the contact. Also they had a Lifeboat website with a lot of genealogical details on it of past lifeboat men. If you read this can you please contact me. Wayne Lawrence |
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Guinevere | Report | 10 Oct 2004 08:44 |
Hi Wayne, I've replied on a different thread. The coastguard and the lifeboats are different organisations. For coastguards you need Trinity House which is a government organisation - the workers are paid - Pilots, lighthouses, coastguards etc. The lifeboat men are purely volunteers and funded by a charity. Gwynne |
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Wayne the boy from OZ | Report | 10 Oct 2004 09:15 |
Thanks I have ammended my request. Wayne |
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Martin | Report | 10 Oct 2004 12:06 |
No Trinity House looks after lighthouses and navigational buoys etc in England and Wales (and probably IoM?) but not Scotland. It is not a government department, it is a charitable organisation. HM Coast Guard is part of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency - I think it is still a government department - UK wide Lifeboats are RNLI - UK and also Ireland. It is a charitable organisation. Martin |
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Guinevere | Report | 10 Oct 2004 13:40 |
Hi Martin, I was thinking about the coastguard in the 18th and 19thC. From the 1830s to the 1920s the Coastguard was run by the Admiralty which I thought was based at Trinty House. An ancestor was a Pilot and I know he had to apply there. He was also a coastguard so that may be why I thought it would be the same place. Gwynne |
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Martin | Report | 11 Oct 2004 01:06 |
No I think Trinity House has always been a typical strange British institution and not run by either the Admiralty or HMCG. |
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Donald | Report | 12 Oct 2004 06:18 |
Hi Wayne I think you are looking for the tree connected to John Barzilai Cock and the Knight family of Ramsgate. Enter -RNLI Ramsgate on your browser and you will find a most interesting site by Clive Lawford. A wide range of local Lifeboat Info. Famous rescues and part of the Knight family tree with some photos. Don |
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Wayne the boy from OZ | Report | 12 Oct 2004 09:59 |
Thats the one thanks....... I could not recall who told me about the site. Wayne |