Merchants and traders along the Scarborough coast

This page features articles on this site which mention trade or merchant shipping. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention trade once.

• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• Scarborough's harbour and the coal trade. Thomas Hinderwell
• When the Colliers came to Scarborough
• History of the Whitby whaling industry
• Article on the coal trade by John Rushton
• Whitbys early history - a fishing town
• Coals from Newcastle - scarboroughs trade in coal
• Charles Dickens account of a shipwreck at Filey
• Scarborough captains and shipbuilding - maritime heritage
• The U-Boat campaign in the First World War
• Smuggling of contraband along the Scarborough coast
• Scarborough ships in the baltic - an article by John Rushton
• Filey fishermen in 1862 - yawls and cobles
• Food rationing during The Second World War in Scarborough
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• A general history of Scarborough
• Thomas Hinderwell - history of Scarboroughs fisheries
• Trawling During WW2 around scarborough and the North - East coast
• Admiral John Lawson - a famous scarborians
• Article by John Rushton on scarboroughs early industries
• French merchants and smugglers on the Yorkshire coast
• The life of a Riding Officer or preventative in the golden age of smuggling
• Theakston's guide to the Scarborough fisheries 1866
• The need for canals in the scarborough area - discussions in the late 1700's
• Captain Cook and his early life in Staithes and Whitby
• Henry Freeman - a famous Whitby lifeboat man
• A scarborough Merchant - An article on scarboroughs maritime history by John Rushton
• The case for a navy By John Rushton - Scarboroughs maritime history
• The fishermen and fisheries of Robin Hood's Bay in 1838
• Scarboroughs Heyday of Inns,smuggling and illicit stills
• Fighting the Scots in Scarborough Waters in the early 16th century. John Rushton
• German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough Trawlers in one night in World War One.