RNLI history around Scarborough,Whitby and Filey
This page features articles on this site which mention RNLI or Lifeboats in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Lifeboat once.
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• The history of Filey Lifeboats
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• An epic Lifeboat rescue in Robin Hoods bay and a terrible tragedy
• Scarboroughs first Lifeboat and its first rescue in 1801
• The RNLI rescue of The Rohilla,1914 at saltwick bay - Whitby
• Henry Freeman - a famous Whitby lifeboat man
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Scarboroughs Lifeboat - the huge storms of October 28th 1880
• Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat November 2nd, 1861
• The mysterious sinking of the Admiral Von Tromp
• Famous fishing families - the Whitby Storr family and the Leadleys
• A childs essay on the qualities of an RNLI Lifeboatman
• Dennis Allen - stories from the sea
• Article by the granddaughter of James Ruffen Bayes
• Wyrill Crawford - Scarborough fisherman
• The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993
• Losses amongst Filey fishing cobles
• A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799
• Scarborough shipwrecks - surviving a shipwreck
• The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families
• Scarborough sailors rescued in the Baltic - Thomas Hinderwell
• Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea
• Charles Dickens account of a shipwreck at Filey
• Godfrey Sheader - stories of the herring fleet and Lifeboats
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks
• Scarborough trawlers sunk and wrecked in the modern era
• A great storm in 1874 along the coasts of England
• The worst day in Fileys history - a hurricane
• Lifeboat disaster in 1836 at Scarborough
• Hinderwells account of the first launch of the Scarborough Lifeboat in 1802
• Log of the German U-Boat which sank eleven Scarborough trawlers in 1916
• Watching for ships by the harbour walls in Scarborough
• Deaths at sea of the Allen family
• A great storm in 1871 in Bridlington Bay
• Charles Dickens account of Filey and Scarborough graveyards
• Radio 270 - pirate radio station off Scarborough
• Sailors graves on the Scarborough coastline.
• Stories of human interest from the sea port of Scarborough
• Hodds Family history - the U-Boats
• A Scarborough Trawler crew cast adrift after a U-Boat attack
• A shipwreck near Whitby - epic account printed by Hinderwell
• William Cammish - log book of the Aurora - a Scarborough merchant ship
• Characters of the Filey fishing industry
• Funny stories from the age of sailing ships in Scarborough
• Robin Hood's Bay - The Storm family website
• A huge storm at Scarborough and a shipwreck
• The loss of the Sincere in 1968
• Scarborough fishermen and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur
• Stories from Flamborough Head and Filey
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