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Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show

THE Institution was represented in the Lord Mayor's Show, on 10th November, by a Life-boat and crew drawn by atractor. The description as it appeared in the programme of the show was :—• " The Ellen & Margaret of Seattle Life-boat, at one time at the Hornsea Station, and now a reserve Life-boat, of the self-righting type, 54 feet by 8 feet 6 inches, mounted on a launching car- riage, manned by Coxswain Read (aSilver Medallist of the Institution) and twelve men of the Ramsgate crew, and drawn by a 35 h.p. motor caterpillar tractor, as used for launching Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.".