Rejoicing at Scarborough

On the 10th March, 1789, about noon, the frigate 'Racehorse,' in company with a revenue cutter, came to anchor in the bay or raodstead of Scarborough. They manned the yards and rigging of each vessel, and then fired; at the same time they were saluted by the whole of the eighteen pounders then in the south steel battery. In the evening, the town and barracks were well illuminated. The 29th Regiment being in the barracks, sallied forth in the night to the hill which overhangs the town in front of the barracks, and then fired feu-de-joie - accompanied by the black drummers. The cause of this joy will be better understood by reffing to history, which states that our beloved sovereign, George the Third, had been ill almost to despair, but in the midst of the contest respecting the Regency, his Majesty was pleased to inform Parliament and the nation of his happy recovery - which, like the shining of the sun after a dreary gloom, could not fail of prodiucing a cheerfulness beyond language to detail.

Nelson's victory

On the 5th October 1798, a grand illumination took place at Scarborough, for Nelson's victory over the rench navy, near Alexandria.

OTHER ARTICLES
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• Strange customs amongst the Scarborough shipbuilders
• Wreck of the Mary Stoddart - Dundalk
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks
• Three Scarborough trawlers sunk by mines in 1920
• Hinderwells account of the first launch of the Scarborough Lifeboat in 1802
• The Borough of Scarborough formed in the 12th Century
• Tunny fishing in Scarborough in the 1930's
• When the Colliers came to Scarborough
• The U-Boat campaign in the First World War
• William Cammish - log book of the Aurora - a Scarborough merchant ship
• Discovery of the Silver pit in 1835
• Seabathing in scarborough - an article by John Rushton
• The press gang and the Royal Navy at Scarborough

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