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Battleships visit Scarborough 19th c
Battleships visit Scarborough - 19th c. When the battleships came to Scarborough the Lords of the Admiralty called at Scarborough in their yacht early in September 1874. A week or two later, some of the great ships of the Channel Fleet HMS Agincou...
Bombardment index Shortly before 3am on Tuesday 15th December 1914 as German Admiral Franz Von Hipper led his squadron of fast battlecruisers and support ships from the mouth of the River Jade, his opposite number in the Royal Navy, Rear Admiral D...
The case for a navy Dr John Dee, one of the cleverest men of his day and a confidante of Queen Elizabeth I, put the case for a Royal Navy, of three score tall ships or more, in 1577. They would stop France, Denmark, Scotland and Spain annoying &qu...
Fishermen of Scarborough and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur
Scarborough fishermen and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur An Article by Arthur Godfrey This year has seen the seventieth anniversary of the darkest days that Yorkshire fishermen have ever known, for in the three years of World War 1 beginning w...
Position Paper.- Harbour Research No 12. J.Rushton.2012 Scarborough and the Royal Navy etc. Additions and corrections are welcomed to this introductory note on connections between Scarborough and the royal Navy. The ...
Scarborough hospital for mariners This article is entitled "Sewing a Safety Net:Scarborough's Maritime Community, 1747-1765" and was written by Charles R. Foy [note 1]. It appeared in the International Journal of Maritime History, XX...
The loss of the Blucher 1915 The German bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914 was followed by another attempted raid in January 1915. This time the Royal navy was ready and the raiding party got caught. One of the ships involved in the raid ...
Maritime heritage timeline 6500 BC Britain became an island when the channel plains flooded with rising sea levels. 1600 BC The first craft used by Britons would have been rafts, dugout canoes and coracles. 600 BC Phoenician trade routes to ...
There is a very extensive site maintained by Lars Bruzelius at Upsala, Sweden. His Maritime History Virtual Archives at: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Nautica.html has many pages of information about maritime history, museums,...
Mercury account of bombardment
The Mercury reports on the bombardment On the 15th December,1914 Mr A Bell was going about his normal daily work as road foreman in Burniston when an erect gentleman with a white hair and moustache stopped beside him. He said looking towards ...
NAUTICAL LANGUAGE Many words and expressions originate from our relationship with the sea. Some familiar words and phrases come from their use on the sea; from commonly used words like overwhelm (from the English word meaning "to capsize"...
SCARBOROUGH PORT AND HARBOUR Was there a Roman port at Scarborough: By John Rushton A great storm - A great tempest in the 1100's at Scarborough. Scarborough History: A very general history covering the Civil war, collier trade, Norman Cas...
Press ganging and the Royal Navy at Scarborough
The press gang and the Royal Navy at Scarborough Press Gang - Richard Sellars says, "I was pressed between Scarbrough piers in the time of the last two engagements betweenthe Dutch and English in the year 1665, and refusing to go on board ...
Remember Scarborough - 1914 Some details on the German raid on Scarborough by Sydney Foord from his "Scarborough records" Remember Scarborough In the midst of the casualties, the chaos and the considerable material damage which greet...
Scarborough trawlers sunk and wrecked in the modern era
Scarborough trawlers sunk and wrecked in the modern era Many people assume that shipwrecks are a thing of the past. In the 1800's wrecks were expected especially in the era of the sailing ship as vessels were driven onto the shore by huge stor...
History of the Scarborough Sea Rangers of S R S Scarborough Written by Dorothy Morrison, ex Sea Ranger of SRS Scarborough & Sea Ranger Lieutentant 1950s / 60s. (2013). This is by no means a complete history but rather bits and pieces of tim...
Seafaring casualties from Scarborough in World War One
Scarborough seafaring casualties in World War One R.I.P. - Skipper Robert Heritage - Second Hand John Chamberlain Barker - Third Hand Arthur Houghton Wright - Chief Engineer Frederick Nathan Mills - Second Engineer James Robert Hunter - Deck...
U-Boat campaign in the First World War
The U-Boat campaign in the First World War When World War One broke out the U-boat was not really well known. The German Imperial Navy had been involved in a naval arms race with the Royal Navy. The race was expensive. Dreadnoughts cost a phenomen...
Winston Churchill - German raid
Winston Churchill - German raid "GERMANS AND MR CHURCHILL - THE DEFENCES OF DUNDEE" in the Scarborough Mercury 24th December. Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was along with the Royal Navy more unpopular than the German...
First World War & Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention World War One in some way. 100th anniversary event - images 2014 Bombardment Centenary Event In 2014, the Scarborough Maritime Heri...
WW1 Navy deaths - Scarborough men
surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron servicenumberExport cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation ANDERSON GEORGE WILLIAM G...
WW2 in Scarborough - article list
Second World War in Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention World War Two in some way. Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 It was Scarborough's fi...
Trawling During WW2 As in the previous conflict the Government recognized that trawlers and fishermen had an essential role in the maintenance of Britain's sea lanes and the Admiralty was keen to get minesweeping operations underway. The...
