Photocopies of assorted correspondence and press cuttings 1841-1849
Includes photocopied correspondence and press cuttings concerning the 1849 South Shields Lifeboat Disaster, when 20 crew of the lifeboat PROVIDENCE drowned whilst trying to save the shipwrecked crew of THE BETSY, off the Herd Sand, at the entrance of the Tyne.
Object Details
| ID: | RNLI/3 |
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| Type: | Manuscript |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1841-1849 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | 1 folder (9 items) |
| Parts: |
Papers of The National Institution for Preservation of Life from Shipwreck 1824-1852 (Manuscript)
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