First hand accounts of life at sea
This page features articles from this website which are frsit hand accounts of shipwrecks or personal stories. They bring to life how life was at sea.
• A preachers trip on a Filey Herring yawl
• Whitby history - The journal of Captain Cook - extracts from Tahiti
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• The mysterious sinking of the Admiral Von Tromp
• Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat November 2nd, 1861
• A scarborough man emigrates to Australia
• Gristhorpe Bay - privateers, rights to wrecks and periwinkles
• A great storm in 1871 in Bridlington Bay
• Naval battle off Flamborough Head - Captain Paul Jones
• Strange customs amongst the Scarborough shipbuilders
• Charles Dickens account of Filey and Scarborough graveyards
• Children of the fishing families in Scarborough
• Scarborough Cobles sunk gravelling in Carnelian bay
• Scarborough sailors rescued in the Baltic - Thomas Hinderwell
• The dogger bank incident in 1904 - The Russian fleet attacks Hull trawlers
• Caught on the Filey Cliffs
• The history of Filey Lifeboats
• The German bombardment of scarborough in the First World War in 1914
• Henry Freeman - a famous Whitby lifeboat man
• The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993
• Two prominent Scarborough people accompany a trawler in Iceland
• Charles Dickens account of a shipwreck at Filey
• Experiments into new lifebelts on the Humber in 1861
• Losses amongst Filey fishing cobles
• U-boat U57 - Naval records of movements as she sank 29 trawlers in three days
• Crimps agents in the era of sailing ships
• Funny stories from the age of sailing ships in Scarborough
• Sailing ships - a true ghost story
• Scarborough sailing ship - a man overboard
• Pirates threaten a Scarborough ship
• The press gang and the Royal Navy at Scarborough
• The visit of Princess Mary to Scarborough in 1927
• Fishermen tell the politicians what they think in 1883
• A Harbour quarrel by John Rushton - Scarborough history
• The Raincliffe School Anchor - caught in a trawler net
• The coastline and cliffs of Robin Hood's Bay
• An epic Lifeboat rescue in Robin Hoods bay and a terrible tragedy
• Robin Hood's Bay - The Storm family website
• A huge storm at Scarborough and a shipwreck
• The loss of the Sincere in 1968
• Witches and black cats in the Old Town in Scarborough - superstitions
• John Swifts first ever pleasure trip on a keel boat
• Sea Urchin Stall on the West Pier at Scarborough
• Thomas Hinderwell - history of Scarboroughs fisheries
• Tip Heritages epic swim only to die of exposure at Speeton
• Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea
• Log of the German U-Boat which sank eleven Scarborough trawlers in 1916
• A Whitby Pirate - John Stephenson
• A shipwreck near Whitby - epic account printed by Hinderwell
• The Whitby whale fishing industry
• Two Scarborough trawler skippers receive bad news
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