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Lifeboat Crew
THIS IS A LIST OF LIFEBOAT CREW INDEXED AT RANDOM WHILST SEARCHING FOR OTHER ITEMS ATTRILL Edmund .. coxswain Bembridge – 1898 Kelly’s Directory. BAKER R. .. Bembridge – at funeral County Press 9 Feb 1929. BARTLETT L. .. Bembridge – at funeral County Press 9 Feb 1929. BECK O. .. Bembridge – at funeral […]
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Lifeboat
THESE ARE JUST A FEW ITEMS RELATING THE THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE LIFEBOAT STATIONS 1898 Kelly’s Directory Atherfield .. lifeboat “Catherine Swift” Bembridge .. Not named. Brighstone Grange .. Lifeboat Joe “JARMAN”. Brook Green .. Lifeboat “William SLANEY”. Sandown .. Lifeboat “The Dove”. LIFEBOAT STATIONS 1910 Kelly’s Directory Bembridge .. Not named Brighstone Grange .. Lifeboat “Brothers Brickwood”. […]
Trinity Service/IW Pilotage
A LIST OF MEN WHO WORKED FOR TRINITY HOUSE. THESE I HAVE FOUND WHILST SEARCHING OTHER ITEMS, SO THERE ARE PROBABLY MANY OTHERS. BARTLETT John 32 .. Mariner Trinity Service – Cowes 1871 census [b.Weymouth, Dorset]. CAWS Charles .. Bembridge (Trinity Pilot) – 1901 census. CAWS Josiah .. Bembridge (Trinity Pilot) – 1901 census. CAWS Wallace Martin […]
Mariner/Sailor their Children
THIS IS A LIST OF CHILDREN EXTRACTED FROM THE SCHOOL ADMISSION REGISTERS, WHERE THE FATHER’s OCCUPATION WAS GIVEN AS MARINER/SAILOR. THE DATE BELOW IS THE YEAR THE CHILD NODEHILL SCHOOL NEWPORT (boys) 1876 COTTLE George. 1876 RIDGWAY Francis 1877 FRY Arthur 1877 RUSSELL Charles. 1877 WOODFORD Henry William. 1878 APPLETON William. 1878 ODELL Arthur. 1878 […]
Customs & Excise Prosecutions 1821-1833
EXTRACTED FROM THE PROSECUTIONS BOOK AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AT KEW ref: CUST/61/176. THESE ARE ALL ISLE OF WIGHT PROSECUTIONS, DETAILS INCLUDE: NAME, DATE OF ARREST, ABODE, OFFENCE AND SENTENCE. Surnames of those listed:- ADAMS, ANDREWS, ARCHER, ARNOLD, ATTRILL, BAKER, BALDWIN, BALIS, BATES, BAY, BEASLEY, BEVIN, BOOKER, BOWERS, BRADING, BRADLEY, BROOKS, BUCKETT, BUTCHER, CALLAWAY, CAMMELLO, CAWS, […]
Customs House
THESE ARE A FEW NAMES THAT I HAVE TRANSCRIBED WHILE SEARCHING OTHER THINGS AND BY NO MEANS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST. I WILL ADD OTHERS AS I COME ACROSS THEM. ALFORD James .. Cowes, Jan 1826-Nov 1836 – marriage & bapts. (Customs Officer). ALFORD James 65 .. W.Cowes census 1841 – Officer of Customs (not of […]
General Seafaring Snippets
THESE ARE EXTRACTED FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS. A SUCCESSION OF DOTS …… AT THE END OF AN ARTICLE, DENOTES THERE IS MORE. 22/12/1855 – SEAVIEW. During the violent gale from the north-east on Tuesday night the “Altraneda” yacht, belonging to R.A.GRAY Esq., of Priory, was driven ashore in the bay and totally wrecked. This is […]
Wreck of the Schooner “Ernst”
3 Masted wooden built ship of Barth, North Germany, was bound from Liverpool to Dantzig with about 420 tons of salt, with crew of nine hands. Wrecked on the shingle bank near Alum Bay. Names listed in order of mention in the County Press report 26 Nov 1898 WALLIS Capt (Master and Owner of the […]
Wreck of Brigantine “Noordster” off Brook Point
Dutch two masted vessel, 183 tons register, bound from Maracaybo, Central America, with a cargo of box-wood and divi-divi for Hamburg. # explanation below Names listed in order of mention in the County Press report 30 Mar 1895 UFKEN of Albasserdam, near Rotterdam (Captain of Noordster) JACOBS Ben (Coxwain Brook lifeboat) MORRIS R. Rev […]
Wreck of the Brigantine “Gudrun”
238 tons register ship of Fowey in Cornwall, laden with china clay and bound for Leith, floundered on the shingles off Totland Bay with the loss of her crew. Names listed in order of mention in the County Press report 19 Mar 1892. MCGAULEY Capt (Commander Yarmouth Coastguards) MCGAREL Alexander L of Belfast (Master Mariner, […]