The Reverend Thomas Stanley Treanor (1878 - 1910), was the Chaplin at the missions to Seamen for Deal and the Downs.
The Reverend Thomas Stanley Treanor was the Chaplin at the missions to Seamen for Deal and the Downs. He wrote a book called "Heroes of the Goodwin Sands". Thomas Stanley Treanor worked for twenty-six years, as Missions to Seamen Chaplain for the Downs, He knew many of the Deal boatmen, both ashore and in their daily perilous life afloat. For twenty-three years he was also the Honorary Secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the Goodwin Sands and Downs Branch; he had sometimes been afloat in the lifeboats at night and in storm, and he has come into official contact with the boatmen in their lifeboat work, in the three lifeboats stationed right opposite the Goodwin Sands, at Deal, Walmer, and Kingsdown. With these opportunities of observation, he wrote an accurate accounts of a few of the splendid rescues effected on those out-lying and dangerous sands by the boatmen he knows so well. Arnold Cawthrow (1913-1993) ‘Big Chief I-Spy’ book fame also lived here.
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Location: Beach Street, Deal, Kent. UK.
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