My father was saved at sea

This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain Wilson

After serving his apprenticeship he [my father John Wilson] went as mate and master of several North Sea and Baltic trading vessels, married in 1823, and then in 1828 became owner and master of Fallowden. One day, late in the year 1836, a north east gale was raging off Scarborough, and the Fallowden was sighted and recognised from the shore, running south on the flood tide, and there seemed but little chance of her rounding Flamborough Head when darkness came and shut her - there were no railways or telegrams in those days - and the ship and all hands were given up for lost. Events proved that my father had managed to clear Flamborough, and had kept off the coast all the way down till reaching Mundesley Bay, below Cromer, when the Fallowden was driven ashore and she broke into halves. All hands were saved, but the news of their safety took a long time to reach Scarborough. This was four years before I was born, but the fate of Mr. "Corney" Peckett told me in after years that he had never forgotten the night my mother learned her husband had been saved. She was a Wesleyan of the old school, and the Wesleyans used to meet for worship in Church Stairs Street - it was before Queen Street Chapel was built. Mr Peckett said: "I thought she would have raised the roof off the old place with her Hallalujahs".





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