Trawlers - the age of the steam trawler and beyond

• Scarborough fishermen and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur
• The U-Boat campaign in the First World War
• German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough Trawlers in one night in World War One.
• Three Scarborough trawlers sunk by mines in 1920
• 1000 years of fishing.
• A Scarborough Trawler crew cast adrift after a U-Boat attack
• The dogger bank incident in 1904 - The Russian fleet attacks Hull trawlers
• Log of the German U-Boat which sank eleven Scarborough trawlers in 1916
• Sustainable fishing - quotas and a way of life
• The fishing fleets of the 1920's - Hulls Gamecock fleet
• The RNLI rescue of The Rohilla,1914 at saltwick bay - Whitby
• Some typical Scarborough boats
• Scarborough Harbour - a bibliography compiled by John Rushton
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century
• Scarboroughs Lifeboat - the huge storms of October 28th 1880
• The German bombardment of scarborough in the First World War in 1914
• Yorkshire coast timeline - Scarboroughs maritime heritage


Please send any interesting stories or articles or photos - contact our webmaster at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk - There are over 80 articles on this site written by eight different authors. They feature ancient Scarborough history (mostly written by Scarborough Historian John Rushton), articles on epic lifeboat rescues, family histories, U-Boat attacks, and trawler history (relying on George Westwoods archives).