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Commercial Vessels
Here are two Excel spreadsheets of Scarborough Commercial Vessels from 1380 to 1952
1380 to 1830
1831 to 1952
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Countess of Scarborough
Ships hired by the Admiralty:
COUNTESS OF SCARBOROUGH - 20 guns, hired November 1777 - Captain Thomas Piercy.
17 June 1779 Countess of Scarborough and Medea took the French privateers D...
George Armstrong & Scarborough Marine boatyards
Alan Parker was the former owner of Scarborough Marine Engineers (SME) successor to Gordon Armstrong Marine on Sandside, next to the boat chandler shop. SME was the last yard to build ...
HMS Scarborough
There were many ships named after the town of Scarborough including several HMS Scarboroughs.
We have the crest plaque badge of one of the last HMS Scarboroughs that was decommsioned and scrapped by the Royal Navy in 1977. ...
Rope, Hemp & Canvas sails
Scarborough's dozen shipyards required rope and sail cloth for the hundreds of vessels built here. Rope Walk can be seen on this old map below and is now a row of houses in part of Castle Road. Sa...
'Scarborough' ship - convict transport ship to Australia - 18th Century
A Scarborough built vessel, the 430 ton, “Scarborough” completed in 1782 was one of the eleven vessels in the “firs...
Scarborough SH registered boats index
Here are two pdf files of the George Scales SH boat index. For more information contact us.
SH index by boat name
SH index by port reg number
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There were many types of boats and ships built in Scarborough and thanks to Trinity House we have a comprehensive list of them from the early 1700s up until 1880. Below is a sketch outlining the different types, brigantine, snow etc.
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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 for boats was 1801 with...
The following was found in Bakers history of Scarborough : Whilst a ship was being caulked(made watertight) any passing woman had to be kissed : The custom didn't last for long!
Caulking kiss - for several years before and some years afte...
The following was found in Bakers history of Scarborough: Whilst a ship was being caulked (made watertight) any passing woman had to be kissed: The custom didn't last for long!
Caulking kiss - for several years before and some years after...
This page was compiled from research done by James Buckley, when he was warden of the Trinity House Trust and chariman of the Governors of Graham Sea Training School. It is a ful list of Tindall ships built between 1771 and 1863. The list provide...
The Tindall family were major contributors to the maritime history of Scarborough. A University student could usefully produce a thesis on the family. We can only offer a preliminary glance. There is a story that John son of John Tindall of North...
