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1861 - RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat.
RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861 On Saturday 28th September the new lifeboat at Scarborough was launched. The lifeboat was taken by public procession from the Railway Station down to the lifeboat house. It was christened and immediately t...
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...
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 ...
Brigantines on the Yorkshire Coast This page features articles on this website that mention Brigantines. 1874 - great storm along the coasts of England A great storm in 1874 along the coasts of England A great storm on December 8th 18...
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...
Cowling fishing family of Filey Scarborough and Flamborough
The Cowling fishing family This page features articles on this site that may mention Cowling in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishin...
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...
Scarborough fishing families - the Eves family This page features articles on this site which mention the Eves fishing family in some way. 200 year history of Scarborough's RNLI The 200 Year History of Scarborough's RNLI ...
Filey and the sea This page features articles on this website that mention Filey in some way. 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 ...
The history of Filey Lifeboats From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd THE FILEY LIFEBOAT It was inevitable that Filey men should have been regularly involved with the Filey Lifeboat, eit...
Flamborough Head This page features articles on this website that mention Flamborough in some way. 200 year history of Scarborough's RNLI The 200 Year History of Scarborough's RNLI BACKGROUND Many meetings and much private...
German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough Trawlers in one night in World War One.
German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough trawlers in one night - World War One. On 25th September, 1916 practically all of the Scarborough Trawling fleet was wiped out in a single night by a U-Boat attack. Eleven trawlers were sunk from Scarborough amon...
The Visit of Princess Mary To Scarborough 1927 Today a Royal visit can go almost unnoticed. There are so many distractions in terms of media. Yet in the 1920's Princess Mary visited the town and the whole town seemed to turn out. She had come ...
The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993 Fishermen and their families are aware of the dangers in the industry. Yet when tragedy strikes it always seems so unexpected. They somehow think accidents will happen to others - it won't h...
Herring fisheries in Scarborough
Herring fishing in Scarborough This page features articles on this website that mention herring in some way. 1000 years of fishing 1000 years of fishing The following is a summary of the arguments of Professor Callu...
Scarborough fishing families - the Hodds family This page features articles on this site which mention the Hodds fishing family in some way Cowling fishing family of Filey Scarborough and Flamborough The Cowling fishing family This page feat...
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...
The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat This chapter first appeared in Godfrey Arthurs book the Scarborough Lifeboats Since medieval times, the town of Scarborough had been important to mariners for its "harbour of refuge", where ...
Lifeboat - the huge storms of October 28th 1880
Scarboroughs Lifeboat & the storm of October 28th, 1880 In Scarborough's Art Gallery there are some huge paintings of the storm of October 1880. The scene is littered with the ten ships which went down on the South Bay. It looks ...
Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat November 2nd, 1861
Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat November 2nd, 1861 The lifeboat tragedy of November 2nd,1861 was perhaps the most memorable in Scarborough's RNLI history. It took place just yards off the Spa Walls. It was witnessed by many who watched the dr...
Scarborough fishing families - the Mainprize family This page features articles on this site which mention the Mainprize fishing family in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster ...
Scarborough's Old Town This page features articles on this website that mention Scarborough's Old Town in some way.. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat ...
Pirates This page features articles on this website that mention pirates in some way. Books on Pirates & smugglers Links to books & useful websites on pirates & smugglers A general history of pyrates ... Br...
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 ...
Radio 270 - pirate radio station off Scarborough
Radio 270 - pirate radio station off Scarborough Most people associate pirate radio with Radio Caroline but in truth there were pirate radio stations all arouind the UK. Radio Scotland went on air on New Years Eve. Then Radio 270 intended to start...
Scarborough fishing families - Rennard family This page features articles which mention the Rennard families in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to es...
Robin Hood's Bay - articles on fishing, lifeboats and the village
Robin Hood's Bay This is a list of articles on this website that mention Robin Hood's Bay. Brigantines The Brigantine along the Scarborough and Whitby coast This page features articles on this site which mention Briga...
Rohilla rescue 1914 - Saltwick Bay, Whitby
RNLI rescue of the Rohilla, 1914, Saltwick Bay - Whitby Saltwick Bay is just South of Whitby and is virtually overlooked by the Abbey. Its a flat rocked bay and can be prone to heavy surf. In 1914 The hospital ship "The Rohilla" was boun...
Rowing lifeboats in Scarborough
Scarboroughs rowing lifeboats THE ROWING LIFEBOATS OF THE RNLI The following history is reprinted from Arthur Godfreys book "The Scarborough Lifeboats" The RLNI began in 1824, but as we have seen Scarborough already had a well esta...
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...
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. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of ...
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...
Seamen's Poetry The following list is an anthology of seamen's poetry. Seamen's Poetry > List of Current Documents: 1. A Scarborough Row in Verse 2. A Tribute to One of Our Gallant Defenders by Vaughan, Herbert 3. A Wint...
Scarborough fishing families - the Sheader families 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Whitby & Saltburn coastline This page features articles on this site which mention Whitby or areas close by in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Whitby once. ...
Whitby - Storr and Leadley family
Whitby - Storr and Leadley familys In 1861 the Whitby Lifeboat sank and took the lives of twelve men including Matthew Leadley, Robert Leadley,John Storr (Coxswain) and William Storr. This was a famous date in Whitbys RNLI history. Another rescue ...
Yawls This page features articles on this website that mention Yawls in some way. Accidents at sea Accidents at sea The following article was in the Scarborough Mercury in 1910. It was entitled "SCARBOROUGH HERRING SEASON - ...
Yorkshire Coast history This page features articles on this site which mention the Yorkshire Coast. 20th anniversary of the bombardment German bombardment - 20th anniversary The following article appeared in the 16th December, 1934...
