'Cockleshell Heroes', Fleetwood

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iBase ID

241673

Reference identifier

NFL20140502001

Title

'Cockleshell Heroes', Fleetwood

Place

Fleetwood

Personal names

Tom Percy, Nicholas Abram, 'Judy' Wright, Tom Leadbetter, Joseph Leadbetter, 'Toby' Wright, Dave Leadbetter, Jack Leadbetter Dick Leadbetter, Jim Roskell, John Salthouse, Charley Hughes, Matt Boardman, F. Bettess, Matt Cowell, Lawrence Bond

General notes

This image is a copy of postcard and shows the crew of the lifeboat 'Maude Pickup'. This vessel was in service from 1894-1930.

A picture of the vessel is in the collections at Fleetwood Museum and was on the BBC Your Paintings website in 2014.

The image appears in Catherine Rothwell's 'Fleetwood in Old Picture Postcards Vol. 2' on page 38 where the crew are listed as Front row (from left): Tom Percy, Nicholas Abram, 'Judy' Wright, Tom Leadbetter - Middle row:Joseph Leadbetter, 'Toby' Wright, Dave Leadbetter, Jack Leadbetter - Back row: Dick Leadbetter, Jim Roskell, John Salthouse, Charley Hughes, Matt Boardman, F. Bettess, Matt Cowell, Lawrence Bond

Medium

Postcard

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

c1903

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Locator

S People 419

Subjects

Place Names > Fleetwood

PLACES > Coast

TRANSPORT > Sea

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