Nothing heard of ships lost at sea

This is based upon the words of Mr W Sharrah who wrote a pamphlet entitled "Tales from the sea"

Mr W Sharrah, compiled a book of tales from the sea. He had countless stories of sad tales. He read numerous accounts of ships lost in fearful gales. Women came up to him and informed them of their own sad loss: A brother lost or a husband who never returned.

On one occasion he was approached by a female who said "I wanted to see you very much because you take such an interest in sailors - my mother died at sea, and I have had had three brothers drowned at sea - one of my brothers was lost at the mouth of the Thames, another went down in the river Tyne, and the other has not been heard of since he sailed, which is now two years ago; and whether I am a widow, and these three children fatherless, I cannot say, nothing having been heard of the ship in which my husband sailed for many months."

Many women would never hear of what became of their loved ones. They would sit by the fireside getting steadily more depressed as their husbands return was long overdue. Eventually they have to accept that they had become widows. Noone witnessed the ships as they were engulfed by some tempest. Noone survived the tragedy. Eventually they would tell the tale of how "the ship was lost with all hands." But that is all that they ever heard.



OTHER ARTICLES
• Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Dennis Allen - stories from the sea
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• Scarborough sailing ship - a man overboard
• Funny stories from the age of sailing ships in Scarborough
• Lost with all hands
• A sea shanty about a storm on the Scarborough coast
• Crimps agents in the era of sailing ships
• Charles Dickens account of Filey and Scarborough graveyards
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• Sea shanties and the filey Fishermen's choir
• Famous fishing families - the Whitby Storr family and the Leadleys
• Watching for ships by the harbour walls in Scarborough
• Sailing ships - a true ghost story
• The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993
• The U-Boat campaign in the First World War
• Shipbuilding at Scarborough - the wooden barques and schooners

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