This page features articles on this site which mention the Sheader fishing families in some way.
1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster
1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishing boats back to port during bad weather. Storms can whip up out of no where and the lifeboat would be there to help just in case. On the 8th December 1954 such...
200 year history of Scarborough's RNLI
The 200 Year History of Scarborough's RNLI BACKGROUND Many meetings and much private discussion took place at Trinity House in Scarborough during the close of the eighteenth century, not only among seamen, but also amongst other well-dispos...
A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people
SMHC Archive File information held on the following Scarborough People (non fishing). Updated 2010 :- Florence Balgarnie Bronte sisters Beauclerk - Lord Capt Browne-Bushall Ian Carmichael Sir Richard Chomley John Cole ...
Admiral Von Tromp, mysterious sinking
The mysterious sinking of the Admiral Von Tromp On Saltwick Bay near Whitby lies a wreck. Many people stand and stare at this. Many a tourist will ask the name of the stricken vessel? Thats easy - its a wrecked trawler named the Admiral Von Tromp ...
Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families
The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families The writer of this history did not leave his or her name. It is a family history which concerns one child - Alice Irene Allen. I was introduced to Alice Irene in the cosy kitchen of a little ho...
Allen family history - Scarborough fishing family
The Allen family history I have compiled my family tree over many years until it now numbers 4640 persons and 1462 marriages. The ALLEN tree extends from my grandchildren back through ten generations and at the present time reaches the year 1680. ...
Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2
Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 It was Scarborough's fishing fleet that first felt the effects of the war as far as enemy action was concerned. Fishing was only allowed between the hours of sunrise and sunset. The first incident occu...
Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader
Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Familys A look at the electoral register in 1905-06 reveals quite a lot. If you look at certain streets within the old town then lots of the houses were taken by the fishing and seafaring families. A look at Quay...
Cobles along the Scarborough and Filey coast
Cobles on the Yorkshire Coast This page features articles on this website that mention cobles. 1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following is a...
Cobles sunk gravelling in Carnelian bay
Scarborough Cobles sunk gravelling in Carnelian bay Fishing cobles often used to do other work to help make ends meet. They would transport building materials of various kinds. Boats would go as far as Flamborough. The following article was taken ...
Cowling fishing family of Filey Scarborough and Flamborough
The Cowling fishing family This page features articles on this site which mention the Cowling and Colling fishing family of Scarborough,Flamborough,Filey and Flamborough in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Th...
The Dalton fishing family of Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention the Dalton fishing family of Scarborough,Flamborough,Filey and Flamborough in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarb...
Dennis Allen - stories from the sea
Dennis Allen - stories from the sea This is a short extract from a book Dennis Allen wrote about his first trip to sea in 1954. The wind screaming through the rigging reached its peak as the storm hit us. Waves crashed over the decks ripping th...
Early industries in Scarborough
Scarborough's early industries - By John Rushton Scarborough shipbuiding in the 19th century Scarborough shipbuilding was a contracting industry after the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. The 1824 reciprocity treaties were blamed for the...
Scarborough fishing families - the Eves family This page features articles on this site which mention the Eves fishing family in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Eves once...
A fisherman's pub in Scarborough Irene Carver and her husband John owned a Scarborough pub, the Lord Nelson, on Victoria Road. Owing to John Carver's connections with the fishing industry it was a fisherman's pub. Irene and John Car...
Fishing cobble founders off Scarborough
Fishing cobble founders off Scarborough The following news story was provided by Marie Williams from Grimsby. It refers to William Jennison who was her Great Great Grandfather. The following news story appeared in the Glasgow Herald Newspaper 1...
Fishing farming and tourism in the early Filey - 1805
Fishing farming and tourism in the early Filey - 1805 Filey fishermen are mentioned in ancient documents long before any are known at Scarborough. Even today, some old Scarborough fishing families have Filey roots. And yet Filey was as much a farm...
Flamborough coble disasters An article from the Scarborough Mercury of February 5th 1911. entitled "DISASTROUS STORM - SCARBORO' RESCUES - LOSS OF LIFE AT FLAMBOROUGH - OTHER COBLE CALAMITIES" A sudden and very violent storm of wi...
THE DEATH OF YOUNG FRANK BAYES, age 24, by granddaughter of James Ruffen Bayes On December 8th,1954 three scarborough Lifeboatmen lost their lives. Amongst them was young Frank Bayes. Local Ann Moncrief remembers this day well. Her uncl...
Godfrey Sheader - stories of the herring fleet and Lifeboats
Godfrey Sheader - stories of the herring fleet and Lifeboats Reproduced from an old article Thursday, 22nd August 1929 in the Scarborough Post - an interview with an old Scarborough fisherman and lifeboatman - Godfrey Sheader Old Godfrey Sheade...
Graham Sea Training School, a history
The history of the Graham Sea Training School The School building was provided by the Mayor Mr C C Graham in 1918. He bought the building and donated it to Scarborough Corporation. Paradise House is situated just beneath the castle - a large house...
Scarborough fishing families - The Harwood family This page features articles which mention the Harwood families in some way. 1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue ...
Herring fisheries in Scarborough
The herring fisheries in Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention the herring fisheries in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention herring once. &bu...
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 ...
Here is the second "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document, with others to come, is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of t...
Instructions to sailors - Flamborough Head
Instructions to sailors - Flamborough Head Dutch fishermen came every year, for centuries, to follow the herring down the east coast. Their larger vessels were called busses and they developed very effective fishing techniques. Their merchantmen s...
Scarborough fishing families - the Jenkinson family This page features articles on this site which mention the Jenkinson fishing family in some way. 32 Sandside My grandfather's house at 32 Sandside The following story was su...
Jim Sheader - fishing superstitions
Jim Sheader - fishing superstitions Fisherman, Jim Sheader, talks about fishing superstitions. The following text is a transcript of this video My particular superstition is bob tails - I won't say that, but I don't know why....
Scarborough fishing families - the Johnson family This page features articles on this site which mention the Johnson fishing family in some way. A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people SMHC Archive File information held o...
Kolberg lays a minefield off Scarborough
Kolberg lays a minefield off Scarborough Many people in Scarborough know a great deal of the German bombardment upon the town in 1914. A lot less is known about the problem of mines which beset the town for weeks afterwards. There were three ships...
The loss of the Sincere in 1968 The Sincere, registered in Aberdeen as A555 but fishing out of Scarborough, was lost on 28th May 1968. At 3 a.m. in the thick fog she ran aground onto rocks just south of Cayton Bay in an area called Black Horse Roc...
Scarborough fishing families - The Matson family This page features articles which mention the Matson faily in some way. Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Familys A look at the electoral register i...
Merrie Islington - sunk by a U-boat off Whitby
The Merrie Islington - sunk by a U-boat off Whitby Many of the articles involved on this site involve a personal journey. They link to someones family history which has been meticulously researched. This is one such article. I was contacted by a H...
Scarborough fishing families - The Normandale family This page features articles on this site which mention the Normandale fishing family in some way. Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough i...
Old Town and the fishing community - article list
Scarborough's Old Town and the fishing community This page features articles on this site which mention Scarboroughs Old Town or the fishing community in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bott...
Origins of Fishermen versus Firemen Football match on Boxing Day
Scarboroughs Fishermen versus Firemen Football match on Boxing Day Every year people congregate on the South Bay beach in Scarborough. They watch the Fishermen versus the Firemen football match and then usually move on to the Harbour quayside to w...
Scarborough fishing families - the Pashby family This page features articles on this site which mention the Pashby fishing family in some way. A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people SMHC Archive File information held on the follow...
Maritime related poetry & sea shanties archive file list. Contact us for more information (updated 2015) 1. Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach, reverse - Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - extract from The Rime of t...
Articles on this website that mention the harbour: 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishing boats back to port during bad weather. Storms can whip up ...
Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough
Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough Ray Edmonds lives in Princess Terrace and spent many years at sea. He has recorded some of his old stories on a DVD which has been placed on Youtube. If he had a pound for every time he passed ...
RNLI - Scarborough,Whitby, Filey
RNLI history - Scarborough,Whitby, Filey This page features articles on this site which mention RNLI or Lifeboats in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Lifeboat once. &b...
Robinson family of Scarborough and Filey
The Robinson fishing family of Scarborough and Filey This page features articles on this site which mention the Robinson fishing in some way. A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people SMHC Archive File information held on the followi...
Scarborough fishing families - the Rowley family This page features articles which mention the Rowley fishing family in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat i...
Sailors graves on the Scarborough coastline.
Sailors graves on the Scarborough coastline. There is something quite moving about a sailors grave. Many of course die at sea often at places which are aptly named such as Killerby Cliffs or Sailors Grave (Jacksons Bay). But the sea often gives up...
Scales family of Scarborough and Filey
The Scales fishing family of Scarborough and Filey This page features articles on this site which mention the Scales fishing in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Scales onc...
Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea
Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea Scarboroughs rich maritime heritage revolves around the Old Town. This comprises the area around the harbour and on the castle hill. The Old Town extends as far as Friargate and Scarboroughs...
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...
Scarborough Shipbuilders Scarborough was a busy shipbuilding port. Nearly 42,000 tons of ships were made by Tindall's yard and 30,000 by other yards between 1742 and 1879.Pretty amazing really. Where did all that wood came from? The best year ...
Scarborough fishing families - the Smalley family This page features articles on this site that may mention the Smalley fishing family in some way. T Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families The Allen and Truman Scarboro...
Superstitions in the Scarborough fishing community
Superstitions in the Scarborough fishing community This page features articles on this site which mention the superstions in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. • The fishing community in Flamborough he...
Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea
Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea Life at sea is often dangerous and the most difficult thing is to watch as fishermen are in trouble and yet you can do nothing. Tommy Rowley recalls "I remember the loss of the Admiral Von T...
Trawlers and the fishing industry - article list
Trawlers and the fishing industry This page features articles on this website which mention trawlers. Gallery - Trawlers Trawlers Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats &...
Scarborough fishing families - the Trueman family This page features articles on this site which mention the Truman fishing family in some way. 1874 - great storm along the coasts of England A great storm in 1874 along the coasts...
Tunny fishing in Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention Tunny fishing. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention tunny once. • Theakston's guide...
Videos on maritime superstitions, net mending, trawling, etc:
Videos on maritime superstitions, net mending, trawling etc: In 2012 we carried out a series of interviews with local fishermen and their families about their old maritime superstitions. Please click on the links below to take you to the Youtube v...
Scarborough fishing families - the Walker family This page features articles on this site that mention the Walker fishing family in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of t...
World war one outbreak. The war effort in Scarborough
World war one outbreak. The war effort in Scarborough In 1914 war broke out in Europe and all the major powers entered the struggle with enthusiasm. The local newspapers supported the cause vigorously. Those who volunteered were listed and prai...
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...
