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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...
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...
Scarborough captains and shipbuilding Scarborough has long been a nursery of seamen. The coming of the railways and the broadening of share ownership made the 19th century town, for some decades, a modest centre for ship owning, for vessels which ...
Coastal erosion, 19th C Scarborough
Coastal erosion in 19th Century Scarborough The problem of coastal erosion has always been important. In 1880 there was a landslip on the North Bay at Scarborough. It was recognized that a great deal of land had gone in 50 years and that this was ...
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...
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...
Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history in Scarborough
The Harwood and Bullamore fishing familys This family history features the Harwood and Bullamore fishing families and was typed up by Ian Hollingsworth who had a keen interest in family history. He worked at the Scarborough Evening News and died i...
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 ...
Henry Freeman - a famous Whitby lifeboat man
Henry Freeman - a famous Whitby lifeboat man Henry Freeman is a famous name in Whitby Lifeboat history. He was the sole survivor of the 1861 Lifeboat disaster. It all began on the morning of February 9th 1861. The people of Whitby woke up to a fie...
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...
Scarborough's Hick family: a shipping family This article is written by John Hick. It describes his family and their shipping interests in Scarborough. Usually it is only noble or notable families that have a family tree going back bef...
Here is the eleventh "position paper" for the Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the ha...
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...
Here is the sixth "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the ...
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...
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...
Mayors of Scarborough 1836 SAMUEL STANDIDGE BYRON 1836/37 W. HARLAND 1837/38 JOHN HESP 1838/39 THOMAS WEDDELL 1839/40 ...
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...
Newspapers - a rich source of history
Scarborough newspapers - a rich source of history Local newspapers have been recording events for morethan 150 years. Scarborough and other Yorkshire libraries have good collections of the old papers, often on microfilm. Readers can be booked and ...
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 dog hero It was when I was in the Asphodel that I first took a Newfoundland retriever, 'Hero' to sea with me from Scarborough. 'Hero' went ashore daily at Lauceston, and returned regularly, but on the day we sailed he f...
Scarborough : A seaside resort in the 1820s A book seller called John Cole moved to Scarborough in 1821. His diary recorded some of the delights, awaiting both the resident and the genteel visitor, in those years before the railways brought the cr...
Technique to build a ship The stories below appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post. This article concerns stories told by Captain Wyrill It used to be said of our North-East Coast shipbuilders th...
Scarborough ship owners The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain John Wilson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by For...
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 ...
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 &...
Trawlers sunk by mines in 1920
Three Scarborough trawlers sunk by mines in 1920 Most trawlers were sunk by U-Boats in World War I after their crews were allowed to leave. Some fishermen were on board several sunken trawlers during the war. Very few died. Fishermen would rather ...
12 Scarborough Wrens sunk by U-boat In August 1941, twelve Scarborough based Wrens were killed while at sea on route to Gibraltar. The girls were. - Phyllis Bacon - Madge Barnes (who volunteered on her 18th birthday) - Cecilly Benjami...
WW1 Navy deaths - Scarborough men
surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron servicenumberExport cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation ANDERSON GEORGE WILLIAM G...
