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Lifeboat QUEENSCLIFFE crew, Ferrier brothers
Significance
Lifeboat QUEENSCLIFFE
Physical description
Negative - Ferrier brothers raising a sail on QUEENSCLIFFE c1945
Inscriptions & markings
Reverse - " NIL "
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Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Negative - Lifeboat QUEENSCLIFFE - sails being lifted, Lifeboat QUEENSCLIFFE, 1949
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Negative - Ferrier brothers raising a sail on QUEENSCLIFFE
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Reverse - " ".
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Reverse - " William Ferrier ".
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Reverse - " NIL ".
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Reverse - " 1955 / Queenscliffe / Life Boat / Val Ferrier ".
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Reverse - " nil ".
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Reverse - " nil ".
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Reverse - " nil ".
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Reverse - " NIL ".
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Reverse - " nil "
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Reverse - " "
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