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On 15 January 1881, the Upgang lifeboat would finally be called upon, but the outcome was not good. Along with Whitby lifeboat Robert Whitworth , she went to the aid of the brig Lumley , on passage from the River Tyne to Motril , Spain, and now stranded on rocks approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) off Upgang.
A 33-foot 10-oar self-righting boat, Robert Whitworth, costing £255 and built in 1864 by Forrestt of Limehouse, London, had served at Tynemouth for one year, and had then been transferred to Bridlington. However, she was found too heavy for Bridlington due to the soft sand, and it was this boat that was then placed at Whitehaven.
The present day lifeboat station is also on the east side of the river (further upstream) and was opened in 1919, [14] although another building housed a second lifeboat on the west side of the river between 1895 and 1957. [15] A new station building was built on the site in 1895, and this building has since been re-opened as the Whitby ...
In October 1792, Robert Whitworth revised his plan from 1781. The proposal featured a level canal from Griff, near Nuneaton , to Ashby Wolds, which would cost £63,402. From there it would climb 139 feet (42 m) to a summit which would be supplied with water by a steam pumping engine.
The first plans for a canal between Hereford and Gloucester were made by Robert Whitworth, one of James Brindley's pupils, in 1777. The route was part of a grander plan to Stourport-on-Severn and Leominster as well. Twelve years later, Richard Hall submitted plans for a canal via Ledbury. [1
The lifeboat station at Robin Hood's Bay was closed in 1931, as it was found that the Whitby lifeboat could in the bay before the Robin Hood's Bay lifeboat could be manhandled into the sea. [19] The cobbled slipway at Robin Hood's Bay (known as Way Foot ), is steep and the combined weight of the lifeboat and carriage was 7 tonnes (7.7 tons).
In 1789 Robert Whitworth varied the route of the unfinished part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, by building a new tunnel at Foulridge which lowered the summit level by 40 feet. He chose a more southerly route in Lancashire.
The canal left the Andover Canal some 250 yards (230 m) to the south of Mottisfont railway station, [28] on the former Andover and Redbridge Railway, which diverged from the line to Salisbury at Kimbridge railway junction. The line has been lifted, but the station house still exists, on the road from the A3057 at Stonymarsh to Mottisfont. [24]