Tynemouth

The crew took to the rigging, where they remained till, benumbed by cold and exhaustion, they dropped one by one into the midst of the tremendous breakers, and were drowned in the presence of thousands of spectators, who were powerless to render them any assistance.

deeply impressed by this melancholy catastrophe the gentlemen of south shield called a meeting and offered prizes for the best model of a lifeboat calculated to brave the dangers of the sea particularly of broken water from the many plans sent in those of william woodheave and henry greathead were selected and after due consideration the prize was awarded to the shrewd boat builder at south shields he was instructed to build a boat on his own plan with several of woodheave's ideas introduced this boat had five thwarts or seats for rowers double banked to be manned by ten oars it was lined with cork and had a cork fender or pad outside sixteen inches deep the chief point about greathead's invention was that the keel was curved instead of being straight this circumstance simple as it appears caused him to be regarded as the inventor of the first practicable lifeboat for experience has proved that a boat with a curved keel is much more easily launched and beached than one with a straight keel lifeboats on this plan were afterwards placed on different parts of the coast and were the means of saving altogether some hundreds of lives by the end of the year 1803 great head had built no fewer than 31 lifeboats eight of which were sent to foreign countries he applied to parliament for a national reward and received the sum of twelve hundred pounds the trinity house and lloyd's each gave him one hundred and five pounds from the society of arts he received a gold medal and fifty guineas and a diamond ring from the emperor of russia the attention thus drawn to the needs of the shipwrecked mariner might have been expected to be productive of good results but unfortunately it was not so the chief reason for this apathy is probably to be found in the fact that though the lifeboats had done much good work several serious disasters had befallen them which caused many people to regard the remedy as worse than the disease Of this, there was a deplorable instance in 1810, when one of Great Head's lifeboats, manned by fifteen men, went out to the rescue of some fishermen who had been caught in a gale of Tynemouth.

They succeeded in taking the men on board, but on nearing the shore, a huge wave swept the lifeboat onto a reef of rocks, where it was smashed to atoms.

thirty-four poor fellows the rescued and the rescuers were drowned it was not until twelve years after this that the subject of the preservation of life from shipwreck on our coast was successfully taken up sir william hilary himself a lifeboat hero published a striking appeal to the nation on behalf of the perishing mariner and as the result of his exertions the royal national institution for the preservation of life from shipwreck was established in eighteen twenty four This society still exists under the well-known name of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

I personally haven't felt the need to go over or get a longer length plane.

Now, it's not to say that I won't, and some time ago, I think it might have been maybe, I don't know when, maybe three, four months ago, I was actually at a flea market, I was actually at the Tynemouth market, and I did see, what was it, was it, I want to say it was a number.

Was it number 8 perhaps.

I can't quite remember.

But come on, Luton.

St. Austell, Luton, Tynemouth, Loughborough, Tiverton and Newbury.

They're all in October.

It's pronounced Tijeen-mouth.

The young prince informed his mother that his father and his brother Edward had fallen in the neighborhood of Alnwick four days ago.

and had been carried to Tynemouth for interment.

The dying queen's reply was a memorable one.

Raising her eyes and her hands to heaven, she exclaimed, I return thee praise and thanks, almighty God, for inflicting on me so grievous a calamity in my last moments.

The church of Corbridge is dedicate unto St. Andrew.

The personage was once impropriate to the priory of Tynmouth, since by exchange to Caerule.

The town at this time is full meanly builded.

The names of diverse streets that hath been there yet hath names, as old people there testify, and great tokens of old foundations be yet found there, and also numis marta roe.

The crew took to the rigging, where they remained till, benumbed by cold and exhaustion, they dropped one by one into the midst of the tremendous breakers, and were drowned in the presence of thousands of spectators, who were powerless to render them any assistance.

deeply impressed by this melancholy catastrophe the gentlemen of south shield called a meeting and offered prizes for the best model of a lifeboat calculated to brave the dangers of the sea particularly of broken water from the many plans sent in those of william would have and henry greathead were selected and after due consideration the prize was awarded to the shrewd boat builder at south shields he was instructed to build a boat on his own plan with several of woodhead's ideas introduced this boat had five thwarts or seats for rowers double banked to be manned by ten oars it was lined with cork and had a cork fender or pad outside sixteen inches deep the chief point about greathead's invention was that the keel was curved instead of being straight this circumstance simple as it appears caused him to be regarded as the inventor of the first practicable lifeboat for experience has proved that a boat with a curved keel is much more easily launched and beached than one with a straight keel lifeboats on this plan were afterwards placed on different parts of the coast and were the means of saving altogether some hundreds of lives by the end of the year 1803 great head had built no fewer than 31 lifeboats eight of which were sent to foreign countries he applied to parliament for a national reward and received the sum of twelve hundred pounds the trinity house and lloyds each gave him one hundred and five pounds from the society of arts he received a gold medal and fifty guineas and a diamond ring from the emperor of russia the attention thus drawn to the needs of the shipwrecked mariner might have been expected to be productive of good results but unfortunately it was not so the chief reason for this apathy is probably to be found in the fact that though the lifeboats had done much good work several serious disasters had befallen them which caused many people to regard the remedy as worse than the disease Of this there was a deplorable instance in 1810, when one of Great Head's lifeboats, manned by fifteen men, went out to the rescue of some fishermen who had been caught in a gale of Tynemouth.

They succeeded in taking the men on board, but on nearing the shore a huge wave swept the lifeboat onto a reef of rocks, where it was smashed to atoms.

thirty-four poor fellows the rescued and the rescuers were drowned it was not until twelve years after this that the subject of the preservation of life from shipwreck on our coast was successfully taken up sir william hilary himself a lifeboat hero published a striking appeal to the nation on behalf of the perishing mariner and as the result of his exertions the royal national institution for the preservation of life from shipwreck was established in eighteen twenty four This society still exists under the well-known name of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Now, not all of them were to the far-flung fields.

You know, some of them were to Tynemouth or [laughs] wherever.

Yeah.

But the vast majority were, meant getting on a plane-

So that goes out there.

It goes out to Tynemouth, around Whitley Bay and around the back.

You can see where the depot is at South Gosford.

Big shout-out to Alex Reynolds for completely redesigning it.

The Queen deceased without children, but Margaret having married a gentleman of the ducal family of Norfolk, Knight of the Garter, and Standard Bearer of England, their only child and heiress, Alana, became the wife of Sir William Tyndale, who was equally respectable in point of antiquity and alliances.

His family possessed the valuable domain and title of Tyndale in Northumberland, so called from the South Tyne, which, rising in the mountains and moors of Cumberland, waters that dale, and having joined the North Tyne near Hexham, falls into the German Ocean at Tynemouth.

Their baronial residence rose proudly on an eminence which commanded the southern banks of the river.

It consisted of a spacious antique quadrangle, the roof and walls being of immense strength and thickness, extended in the form of the letter H.