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Description: | -Maritme collection important with 'Zetland' the world's oldest existing lifeboat of 1802 on loan to RNLI at Zetland Museum now managed by RNLI, but not registered. Also includes fishing gear, lifeboat ephemera, models of cobles. At Kirkleatham is ' Seamew' a sailing coble, 'Sir JamesKnott' Redcar's last regu;ar off shore lifeboat, 'Volente' a fishing boat and on loan a locally built motor boat. Local shipbuilding is represented by ship models, precision instruments, wooden patterns and an archive, objects and photographs from Smiths Dock Shipbuilding Co.
There are traditional crafts tools for woodworking, leather working, printing, textile and pottery manufacture; A small collection of ironstone mining tools and equipment and a loan 'Owen' collection from the Eston Mines; 2 large railway bogied ladles and scale car and protective clothing and hand tools from the last Teesside blast furnace; Also small transport collection including a Middlesbrough trolley bus, cars and tractors.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Kirkleatham
Redcar Cleveland United Kingdom,
TS1 5NW | FAX: | 01642 474 199 | Telephone: | 01642 479 500 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6140 | Go to resource |
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