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The Lisle Family of Cullercoats
Newcastle Journal – 12 February 1848
The body of George Lisle, jun. Which is the only one of the sufferers then found, was followed, on Sunday last, by all the pilots and fishermen, his late comrades and friends, and many of the inhabitants of the village, to its place of rest, in the burial ground of the Monastery at Tynemouth.
We take this opportunity, to disabuse the public mind, which may be misled by a paragraph which appeared in last week's newspaper, stating that this accident proved the necessity of having a life-boat established at Cullercoats.
It is the opinion of the most experienced and best informed mariners there, that, in the present instance, no life-boat could have approached the fatal spot, near enough to render any assistance to the poor fellows; and that, most probably in an attempt to do so, the boat would have been dashed to pieces on the rocks, and caused the loss of more valuable lives, as was the case some years since at Blyth and Hartley. Besides which, if the services of a life-boat were required; those at Tynemouth and Shields are stationed sufficiently near to render all the help necessary on such occasions. Since writing the above, we are informed that several smaller subscriptions have been made in Tynemouth, Shields, and the neighbourhood; and, in addition to those, we are authorized to state that the family of Robert Arkwright, Esq. Of Sutton, have contributed the munificent sum of eighty pounds, an act of benevolence worthy of example. The body of Thomas Stocks, one of the unfortunate individuals who perished on this melancholy occasion, was found yesterday afternoon, on Tynemouth Sands, where it had been washed up, and left by the receding tide.