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
sailed the high seas and came north to take out fish
and coal. The pioneering volume "Safeguard of
Sailors", full of sketches, made from the sea, of
north east European harbours, was translated from the
Dutch into English by Robert Norman.The 1605 edition was printed in London. Here was good advice.
"If you sail to Flamborough head, take heed of the
Smith(wick) sand that layeth thwart or between
Burlington(Bridlington) and Flamborough head." If the winds were westerly and you couldn't get above
Flamborough Head, you were advised to take heed how you anchored in Flamborough road "for there be foul ground". The mark that you set your position by to miss the foul ground was "the windmill that standeth on the lower part of Flamborough" .And "If ye be bound about Flamborough head, look that the tide lett you not into the sea".
John Rushton
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