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Title: Sailors Home, Great Yarmouth
Post by: Clear on Thursday 26 May 22 11:00 BST (UK)
The "Sailors Home" building on Great Yarmouth sea front has a Blue Plaque that says that survivors of the HMS Lutine shipwreck were taken there. HMS Lutine is famous for its bell the "Lutine Bell" which now hangs in Lloyds of London, the bell is rung everytime a major shipwreck occurs.

Is there a survivors list ?

(Nearby there is another Blue Plaque to Egbert Cadbury, famous for shooting down Zeppelins in WW1)
Title: Re: Sailors Home, Great Yarmouth
Post by: CaroleW on Thursday 26 May 22 11:08 BST (UK)
An item via Google refers to a "sole survivor"
Title: Re: Sailors Home, Great Yarmouth
Post by: ShaunJ on Thursday 26 May 22 11:13 BST (UK)
Yes just one survivor - probably a John Rogers see: https://www.cii.co.uk/media/581215/weerdt.pdf
Title: Re: Sailors Home, Great Yarmouth
Post by: ShaunJ on Thursday 26 May 22 11:31 BST (UK)
The plaque commemorates only the departure of the Lutine, and records that there was only one survivor.

 https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2J0419G/blue-plaque-in-great-yarmouth-about-the-hms-lutine-that-sank-off-the-frisian-islands-with-one-survivor-2J0419G.jpg