John Lait's Radio London photo album - part 3

While John was on board, a lifeboat was called out to take off a crew-member
suspected of having appendicitis. He took these photos.

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A lifeboat alongside the Galaxy.	Lifeboat alongside.
The lifeboat in attendance.
John cannot identify all the people here. Left to right: unknown, Kenny and Cash, a Marconi transmitter engineer name unknown, John himself, John's mate Roy Sheeran, Wally Hemmings a Cummins generator engineer, unknown but believed to be one of the original engineers who had sailed over with the ship from America.	The same group up close: Dave Cash, unknown Marconi engineer, John with a guitar (believed to belong to Paul Kaye, Roy Sheeran and Wally Hemmings's ear.

With grateful thanks to John.
 
John colleague on the mv Galaxy, Roy Sheeran, was written of his time at sea on the Radio London website.
 
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