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Answers:

TVLB Challenge:

  1. No.
  2. 1864.
  3. The Wreck of the S.S. Stanley.
  4. Captain John Morrison, John Foster Spence and his brother Joseph.
  5. All of these were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne: The Fame, The Daimant, The Light of the Harem, The Rupert, The Hannah and Eleanor, The Peggy, The Susannah, The Stanley, The Burton, The Albion and The First of May.

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Barques

  1. Thirty minutes.
  2. Norway.
  3. Onto the rigging.
  4. The Tynemouth Brigadesmen.

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Brigantines

  1. Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade.
  2. Ten in the evening.
  3. 24th December 1895
  4. Only three of the seven bodies were found and buried in Preston Cemetery.
  5. Willie Wouldhave.
  6. The Hannah and Eleanor was carrying coal.

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Schooners

  1. Later in the day there was further tragedy when the "Albion" drifted upon the Spar Hawk.
  2. Blyth.
  3. Coastguard Hoar.
  4. Coal.
  5. Snow was falling thickly.
  6. By means of shouting and signing.

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