Aldeburgh Lifeboat Pascoe Cable Family History
Why this article was included in a 1910 Skegness newspaper, I’m not entirely sure – perhaps the editor imagined it would be of interest to local people because there is a lifeboat connection. I have included the story and newspaper cutting here in the hope it may be of some use to anyone researching the Cable family history or the Aldeburgh lifeboat.
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” Mother of the Lifeboat.”
The death is announced at Aldeburgh of Emma Cable, aged eighty-nine, known as the ” mother of the lifeboat.”
She was the widow of Thomas Cable, who was drowned from the lifeboat fifty-five years ago; the daughter-in-law of Thomas Cable, who was drowned from the old lifeboat Pascoe, and the mother of James Cable, coxswain of the present lifeboat.
Picture: Albeburgh lifeboat “The Pascoe” which sank in 1855.
Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News, 2nd November, 1910.
Please feel free to right-click and save this newspaper cutting if you are researching the family history.
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