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Photograph of lifeboat crewman G Langdon, holding the flexible fuse from a lifeboat maroon. The maroon is in a portable mortar (the box like apparatus in the foreground with carrying handles and a central tube). Two maroons were fired in succession to summon the lifeboat crew in case of emergency. Directly behind Mr Langdon is W [Bill] Kent who is wearing a nautical cap and jacket. The picture was taken near the top of the old lifeboat slipway in London Bay, St Helier Harbour. Photographs of the lifeboat Howard D, one with crew in wet weather clothing and one with passengers aboard in the Harbour, possibly after its' naming ceremony.

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Reference	L/A/75/A2/LB/2/10
Date	August 1937
Names	Howard D (Lifeboat) St Helier Lifeboat Station Langdon, G Langdon, George Landon, G Kent, W Kent, Bill Harbour Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI
Keywords	Lifeboats \| crewmen \| passengers \| uniforms \| explosives \| Fuses \| signals \| exercises \| emergencies
Category	L/A-Businesses
Places	Harbour, St Helier Harbour
Dimensions	3 Photographs
Language	English
Level of description	File
Creator	Jersey Evening Post, The
Access restrictions	Closed for preservation. Please view digital image.
Closed until	2100
Subject	10
File number	Lifeboat
Page number	Page

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L/A/75 Jersey Evening Post (JEP)

L/A/75/A Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive 1921 to 2003. Comprises photo negatives and film, including glass plate negatives, and contact sheets of photographs, from Jersey’s evening newspaper. Arranged in subject boxes, subject files, and chronologically by year and job number. Also includes photographers’ diaries, some of which are indexed. In addition, there are digital images from 2003 to date

L/A/75/A2 Subject files containing pages of mounted photographic prints, of negatives from the Subject Boxes of the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive 1921 to 1975, with notes

L/A/75/A2/LB Lifeboat Subject Files. Pages of mounted photographic prints of negatives which feature lifeboats, with notes. These correspond to the Lifeboat Subject Boxes of negatives from the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive, and date from 1936 to 1975

L/A/75/A2/LB/2 Lifeboat Subject File number 2. Pages of mounted photographic prints of negatives which feature lifeboats, with notes. These correspond to the negatives contained within Lifeboat Subject Box number 2 of the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive, and date from 1937

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Photograph of lifeboat crewman G Langdon, holding the flexible fuse from a lifeboat maroon. The maroon is in a portable mortar (the box like apparatus in the foreground with carrying handles and a central tube). Two maroons were fired in succession to summon the lifeboat crew in case of emergency. Directly behind Mr Langdon is W (Bill) Kent who is wearing a nautical cap and jacket. The picture was taken near the top of the old lifeboat slipway in London Bay, St Helier Harbour. Photographs of the lifeboat Howard D, one with crew in wet weather clothing and one with passengers aboard in the Harbour, possibly after its' naming ceremony.

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