Lifeboat disaster in 1836 at Scarborough

In February 1836 the Scarborough Lifeboat was overturned. This account is from the the Yorkshire Annals

25th. A violent hurricane commenced this day, Tuesday. About eight o'clock in the evening the wind was north north-west, but during the night it veered round to the north north-east. The night was rendered truly awful at Scarborough, by the raging of the storm and the roaring of the foaming billows. On Wednesday morning, about eight o'clock, a sloop hove in sight, the sea at the time running mountains high, but failing in the attempt to gain the harbour, she let go her anchors, and whilst in that situation, fifteen noble-minded seamen volunteered to endeavour, with the life-boat, the rescue of the crew; but of the fifteen, eleven soon found a watery grave owing to the upsetting of the boat. On the failure of this attempt, the sloop slipped her anchors, and was driven on the beach south of the Spa, but providentially the three men on board were ultimately saved by Captain Manby's valuable apparatus for affording assistance in cases of ship-wreck. Before the day closed not a vestige of the ship was left standing. It is impossible to give anything like a description of the scene the beach presented next morning. Ships were thrown from the stocks, and rolling; timbers, from forty to fifty yards in length, cables, &c., tossed in every direction, bespoke the dreadful havoc.



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