{"id":65916,"date":"2010-06-19T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65916"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:32:06","slug":"coming-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=65916","title":{"rendered":"Coming Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1480\" height=\"895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1077933734-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65915\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6571428571428573;width:726px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1077933734-a-1.jpg 1480w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1077933734-a-1-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1077933734-a-1-496x300.jpg 496w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1077933734-a-1-150x91.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1077933734-a-1-400x242.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Not easy work bringing in the lifeboat, now known to be the \u201dFifi and Charles\u201d life boat which was based at Redcar 1907-1931. Fred Brunskill tells us: \u201dThe \u2018Fifi and Charles\u2019 was the last of the rowing lifeboats, towards the end of her service she was provided with the first of Redcar\u2019s tractors to aid launching and recovery. A 35hp. Clayton tractor was delivered in readiness for the \u2018Fife and Charles\u2019s\u2019 successor which was to be a heavier and motor driven lifeboat named the \u2018Louisa Polden\u2019.\u201d Paul Gray tells us: \u201dRegarding the \u201cFifi and Charles\u201d, having researched my family tree , have my great-grandfather hired out a team of horses to launch the lifeboat mentioned, would appreciate any pictures if anyone has them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy of Mike Holliday and others, thanks to Derick Pearson, Fred Brunskill and Paul Gray for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not easy work bringing in the lifeboat, now known to be the \u201dFifi and Charles\u201d life boat which was based at Redcar 1907-1931. Fred Brunskill tells us: \u201dThe \u2018Fifi and Charles\u2019 was the last of the rowing lifeboats, towards the end of her service she was provided with the first of Redcar\u2019s tractors [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-rescue","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79201,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916\/revisions\/79201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}