DEATH – Unknown male. Body from sea believed from “Dalton Lass”

Accreditation. The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 16/07/1869

BODY PICKED UP OFF REDCAR

            Yesterday afternoon (15/07), the body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition was picked up by a coble off East Scar. It was brought ashore and taken to the Royal Hotel, where it remains awaiting the coroner’s inquest. It is supposed to be the body of one of the crew of the fishing boat. “Dalton Lass,” of Hartlepool, which was wrecked off Saltburn on the (16/06), when three of the crew were drowned.

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