Coals from Newcastle - scarboroughs trade in coal
Scarborough has a harbour side inn called the
Newcastle Packet and once had another known as the
Sunderland Bridge. These names recall the profitable
trade in shipping coals from Newcastle and Sunderland
to the east coast, London and Europe, which kept the
port of Scarborough alive in the 18th century. Levies
on the coal trade paid for much of the development of
the harbour. There was investment in the building and
working of collier brigs. The harbour was a haven of
refuge for the collier fleets moving south, often in
convoy, in times of storm and other offshore threats.
A typical voyage by a Scarborough owned collier
saw Captain Allatson Bell leave Newcastle on August
5th, 1718, for his sixth voyage. The profit was later
distributed to Thomas Goland, George Hugill, William
Fowler and other shareholders. More voyages during
that year were very similar in their pattern of
costs, income and profit, but included purchases of
peas, swine grease,cheese, hard and soft bread,
vinegar, a pair of oars at 4s, a stone of oakum at
1s4d, a brass gauging compass at 9s and mending
maintop sails for 8s9d. Seven men were paid wages
and a man had £1 for "looking after our ship in
Winter".
Voyage accounts:-
132 chalder of coals cost £71.4.0
keel dues £10.18.0
heaving ballast £1
trimming coal 16s
portage £3..16.0
a stone of pitch 2s4d
horse hire 2s
shipping money 4s
laying second hand rope 4s6d
seven yards of old canvas 2s4d
anon 15s
26 stone 15 lbs beef £1.13.3
axe, nails, bread etc 9s
custom house charges £13.17.6.
cobble hire at Scarborough 3s
wages £25.12.6.
OTHER ARTICLES
• When the Colliers came to Scarborough
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century
• Scarborough's harbour and the coal trade. Thomas Hinderwell
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• Children of the fishing families in Scarborough
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• Article on the coal trade by John Rushton
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• The fishing fleets of the 1920's - Hulls Gamecock fleet
• Scarborough pleasure boats - the Bilsdale, Coronia and Royal Lady
• Shipbuilding at Scarborough - the wooden barques and schooners
• Stories of human interest from the sea port of Scarborough
• The U-Boat campaign in the First World War
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• Life in the Old Town of Scarborough and harbour - the fishing families
• A sea shanty about a storm on the Scarborough coast
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