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For those in peril on the sea: HMS Racehorse’s Manx legacy
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A surgeon from Croydon who served in the Royal Navy of Nelson’s era, survived a traumatic shipwreck that prompted the formation of a fine institution, as DAVID MORGAN discovered with the help of fellow archivists from the Isle … Continue reading
Croydon’s Lifeboat parades that answered a Mayday appeal
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Newspaper archive reports going back more than a century reveal a regular Croydon town centre fund-raiser: the Lifeboat Day procession, as DAVID MORGAN takes us back in time… The RNLI, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, celebrates its 200th … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, David Morgan, Frederick Edridge, Queen Victoria, RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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