3-003-877 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Sailors' Home at Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk], 1861. 'The Great Yarmouth Beachmen and Fishermen's Institute, British and Foreign Sailors' Home, and Refuge for the Shipwrecked of All Nations...consists of four stories and a basement [which]...is open night and day, affording warm baths, dry clothing, the means of washing and drying the clothes of the shipwrecked, and all necessary appliances for the restoration of suspended animation...On the ground floor is the coffee, news, and smoking room, open to every seafarer, gratis, at all hours...the museum...contains...an extensive collection of maritime charts, maps, and nautical instruments, and newspapers of the day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.