On 30th August 1916, at the fourth attempt at rescue, the Chilean vessel Yelcho, a tug built in Scotland in 1906 and sold to the Chilean Navy in 1908, sailed her way into the history books after partaking in the final act of a survival tale like no other as […]
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Among the many names included in those mentioned at the funeral announcement of Tom Crean in 1938, was one who appeared in the messages of sympathy. Commander Donal Bernard O’Connell who had, two years earlier, retired as a Captain from the Royal Navy, intrigued me. Donal happened to be the […]
When Tom Crean was headhunted Surprisingly absent from the timeline of Tom Crean’s story until I got stuck into my research for Crean’s biography, is a man called Joseph Foster Stackhouse. Born in 1873 to a Quaker family in Kendal, the gateway to England’s Lake District, Stackhouse had been a […]