Shipwrecked Sailors' Home 1900-1918
Photographs of rescued crews up to the end of World War One
By John Layton
The Sailors' Home was always busy, but never more so than during the two World Wars.
These photographs show some of the crews from the beginning of the 20th Century to the end of World War One.
Note that not all the crews brought into the Home between 1914 and 1918 were there because of enemy action - the local Sandbanks and beaches were still a hazard. The third picture tells of such a wreck:
"(Schooner 'Dart') The crew of 4 hands were lashed to the rigging for 12 hours. A blizzard raged all night. One man died and one was treated at the Hospital. The two shown here came into the Home. The old man was 81 years old and had been a mariner for 67 years!"
Crew off Cromer 'crabber', run ashore at Yarmouth - Sept 4th 1910
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Crew of Cornish Schooner 'Gowan' wrecked on Happisburgh Sands - January 14th 1912
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Crew of Schooner 'Dart', wrecked on Corton Beach, 28th March 1916.
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Schooner 'Catherine' ashore off Palling, 9th March 1916
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