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18th March 2022 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

The rescue of the Northern Belle and a BBC TV Programme

The story of the rescue of the crew of the Northern Belle and the loss of nine Margate men gets a wider audience.

12th February 2021 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Child Migration

For more than 100 years, child migration schemes removed children from their families and friends and the places they knew. The children were sent to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Rhodesia. Supposedly to give children with poor lives a better chance, it was also a means of increasing the population of these still new countries. At least three of the children were Emptages.

14th April 2018 David Emptage Leave a Comment

The Brigantine Sarah – A Gallant Rescue by the Margate Lifeboat

At a time of severe gales, in January 1871, the Brigatine Sarah, carrying coal, was aground on Margate Sands. The crew of the lifeboat Quiver and a local lugger Ocean went to the rescue.

13th April 2018 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

The loss of the Friend to All Nations

In 1897 Margate was once again to witness the tragic loss of life of nine of its lifeboat crew.

One of the crew was John Benjamin Dike, descended from Henry Emptage and Ann Peal.

Albert John Emptage was coxswain of the lifebaot Quiver and was a witness at the inquest and the Board of Trade Inquiry.

25th November 2015 Michele Martin-Taylor Leave a Comment

Thomas Emptage the Younger versus The Navy Board

Thomas was called upon to do his duty and hire out his cutter to the Navy Board, to help service the English fleet at war with France.

If you hire something out, you expect to be paid for your time and expenses especially when, during the period of the hire, you’ve not had any other form of income and have incurred debts on behalf of your country.

Thomas, like many other people at the time, found himself having to argue with the Navy Board in order to be paid.

20th January 2015 Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Bonaparte’s Hat

The story of an encounter with a veteran boat man named Hemptage and of his meeting with Napoleon Bonaparte. Why was it so important?

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