The Sailors' Home - Blue Plaque - Great Yarmouth - Norfolk, Great Britain.
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The Sailors' Home - Great Yarmouth - Home for Shipwrecked Sailors - A Blue Plaque on the building that is now the Tourist Information Centre - Great Yarmouth - Norfolk, Great Britain.
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/27/2013
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Blue Plaque - Great Yarmouth - Tourist info building - Norfolk, Great Britain.
The Plaque reads:
Great Yarmouth Beachmen and Fishermen's Institute;
The Sailors' Home 1861 - 1965
British and Foreign Sailors Home and, refuge for the shipwrecked of all nations.
Cared for 11,000 shipwrecked seamen from 29 nations.
Maritime museum of East Anglia 1967 - 2003.
G.Y.L.H.&A.S
The closure of the Sailors' Home
"Improvements to navigational aids and more sophisticated equipment made shipwrecks rarer and fewer calls were made on the Home. It closed on the 1st January 1965. Back in 1860 the local Town Gossip column complained that the Home had been built on too grand a scale, and would remain empty for most of the year and be difficult to maintain and that inevitably it would close.
It did close, but not till 100 years later. By that time over 11000 shipwreck survivors had been given shelter from all around the country and from 29 different nations." Text Source: (
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