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
• Scarboroughs Old Town and its connection to the sea
• When the Colliers came to Scarborough
• A general history of Scarborough
• Article on the coal trade by John Rushton
• Whitbys early history - a fishing town
• Filey fishermen in 1862 - yawls and cobles
• Scarborough's harbour and the coal trade. Thomas Hinderwell
• Scarboroughs Sir Edward Harland - The renowned Belfast Shipbuilder
• Scarboroughs Heyday of Inns,smuggling and illicit stills
• Scarborough captains and shipbuilding - maritime heritage
• Charles Dickens account of a shipwreck at Filey
• Fighting the Scots in Scarborough Waters in the early 16th century. John Rushton
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• The need for canals in the scarborough area - discussions in the late 1700's
• Ranter Chapel revival in Filey
• Not just your average Whitby will - John Rushton
• Thomas Hinderwell - history of Scarboroughs fisheries
• Theakston's guide to the Scarborough fisheries 1866
• The history of the Scarborough fishing industry