Scarborough Maritime heritage centre - historical data and articles

Please send any interesting stories or articles or photos - contact our webmaster at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk - There are over 200 articles on this site written by many 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).

RECENT ARTICLES

• Scarborough Wren Muriel Davison and her book about the wireless station on Irton Moor.

• A summary of the vikings attacks on Scarborough and other coastal regions.

• The view from Grovehead near Plantation hill in Scarborough.

• Scarboroughs Foreshore in olden times.

• Mary Stoddart, a Scarborough ship which sunk off Dundalk. The account from the Scarborough Mercury

• Anthony Pearson, a first hand account of his terrible ordeal

• A terrible account of hunger at sea

• An article by Mick Procter about Paradise House

• An account of how Scarborough's fishing boats used to rest up for the winter.

• An account of the Spanish armada off Flamborough

• A sailor spiked at sea who recovered.

• The Bullamore family history by Bob Bullamore

• Edward Anderson's first voyage at sea. From Meadleys Memorials

• A story of when King George recovered from illness.

• Anthony O' Hagan's - some information on the Mary Stoddart, a Scarborough ship which sunk off Dundalk

• Yards and places off Longwestgate and Quay Street. Scarborough's Old Town used to be full of random streets built onto the hill.

• The sinking of the Aguila along with 12 Scarborough Wrens

• The now long forgotten Monkey Island

• The Graham Sea Training School

• The sea stories of Don Pickard

• An RNLI rescue whilst the band played

• First hand account of life as a sea cadet

• A six week sea voyage to Australia

• Stories of Scarboroughs tunnels

• Irene Carvers fishermens pub

• A schoolboys trip to Iceland

• Ice in the Sea of Azov

• Captain Wyrill nearly sunk in same place as his father

• Riots in Scarborough between fishermen

• Scarboroughs first lifeboat in 1803

• A near collision

• A temperance ship

• A poem about the loss of the Comely

• A cannibal chief

• A Scarborough sailor meets Napoleon

• A Scarborough boy runs away to sea

• A Scarborough ship pumps for its life

• A Scarborough ships captain dies at Aden

• A harbour on the North side?

• The loss of the Emulous and the strange tale of second sight.

• Scarborough men witness a cossack charge

• A ships mate has a dispute

• A ships cook sacked

• The outbreak of war in 1914

• Food and conditions at sea

• A French prisoner of war

• A sailor gone mad

• A German prisoner of war

• Run aground on a bed of sponges

• Captain Wyrill retires

• A ships officer - good men and true

• A Scarborough captain receives bad news at sea

• A story of a so called cannibal chief

• A maritime timeline

• The grave of Lord Charles Beauclerc. Lost in the 1861 Lifeboat disaster

• The wreck of the Mary in 1869.

• A personal account of the Black Eyed Susan going ashore in 1880

• The Berean - a remarkable Scarborough ship

• A long room in Sandside - by John Rushton

• A shipload of single girls

• A cholera outbreak

• Salvage work

• Lost at sea

• Strange premonition

• Gruesome pirate story

• Fishing in the old days

• The age of the smack

• Maritime Timeline

• Arthur Munby and the flither girls

• Fishermens relief fund 1869

• Some strange stories from Filey

• Arms in Scarborough in the Civil War

• The story of John Dean

• Colliers held for ransom by Privateers

• Protection from press gang

• A tragic loss in front of Scarborough Harbour

• Ship owners son put in place

• Huge shark

• John Oxtoby and Filey

• Husband is alive and well

• Some historical references to whales

• Thomas Normandale obituary

• Scarborough sailors witness slave girls

• Whisper Cammish who sailed on yawls

• Improvised surgery at sea.

• The great march gale of 1883.

• The "David" of Scarborough - by John Rushton

• Whale arches - by John Rushton

• An article on some family photos

• The Borough of Scrborough by John Rushton

• Ken Cleggs - notes on the 1836 Lifeboat disaster.

• A Scarborough character - Mr James

• The Tindall shipbuilding family. By John Rushton.

• Dennis Allen provides extracts from his book describing the 1954 Lifeboat disaster

• Dennis Allen has compiled a list of ancestors who have died at sea

• Hero the dog - a retriever swims home to Scarborough

• Warnings to ships entering Scarborough harbour.

• Trawler article from 1911 exploring trends in the herring industry.

• The Tindall ship the Morning Star and pirates

• A Filey ghost and a shipwreck

• The filey fishery - John Cole

• The filey fishing industry and its customs

• The first Filey Lifeboat

• Dennis Allens photos and history from the Allen side of his family

• Dennis Allens photos and history from the Sheader side of his family

• Scarborough shipbuilding list

• Tindall shipbuilders - a full list of all ships built by this leading Scarborough shipbuilder between 1771 and 1863

• Sailors graves - Mourning those lost at sea

• Yorkshires last traditional sailing fishing coble boat

• The early years of the Scarborough lifeboat by Godfrey Arthur

• Early trawling - the Yarmouth and Brixham beam trawlers - by Walter Wood

• The Otter trawl and the Beam trawl - by Walter Wood

• Trawler names and overfishing - by Walter Wood

• The story of Thomas Crimlisk - from whom all Crimlisks can be traced back to from Flamborough Filey Hull and Scarborough

• Life at sea - using copper pipes to condense water

• Tommy Rowley talks about the dangers of life at sea

• Captains stories - crimps agents luring crews away

• Some Scarborough sailing ships - AI and Mercia

• Captains Stories - A man lost overboard

• Captains Stories - Pirates attack a Scarborough ship

• Captains Stories - A true to life ghost story

• Captains stories - funny stories from the era of sailing ships in Scarborough

• Shipbuilding and ownership at Scarborough, Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay - written by Douglas J Boyle and archived by Vanessa Boyle

• Wyrill Crawford - a famous Scarborough fishing name - an article sourced by Vanessa Milner

• Scarborough cobles sunk whilst transporting building materials - an article sourced by Vanessa Milner

• Belfast shipbuilder Sir Edward Harland and his Scarborough roots

• A kissing custom in the Scarborough shipyards

• A list of Scarborough Steam Trawler owners compiled by Cryil Prescott

• The loss of the Sincere in 1968 in thick fog

• A child selling sea urchins on the Pier

• Graham Sea Training School

• A fishermans son has his first day at sea

• St Marys Church - the fishermans church

• The Raincliffe school anchor - by John Swift

• Filey - characters from the filey fishing community

• Filey - luggers and yawls

• Filey - common ancestry - the fishing families

• Filey - Lifeboat

• Filey - the migration of fishing families from Norfolk and Devonshire

• Filey - the loss of the Research in 1925

• Filey - the Primitive Methodist Church and the Church of England

• Filey - the Methodists revival

• Filey - tragedies in the Jenkinson fishing family

• Filey - famous gales and storms in 1860 1867 1869 and 1880

• Filey - fishermens nicknames

• Filey during World War One - minesweepers and U-boat attacks

• Filey - The flither girls - truth or fiction?

• The Storm family in Robin Hood's Bay

• Drinking in Filey before the Primitive Methodist revival

• The dangers of Coble fishing in Filey

• A submarine attack on Scarborough in World War One

• The Merrie Islington - a Scarborough trawler sunk by a U-boat in 1915

• Tip Heritages epic swim only to die of Exposure

• A gentlemans visit to Robin Hood's Bay

• A great storm in Bridlington and the Lifeboat overturned

• The Allen and Truman fishing family history

• How did Robin Hood's Bay get its name?

• Women's work in the Filey fishing industry

• A first hand account on board a Filey herring drifter

• Richard Sellars - a quaker press ganged into the Navy

• A landslip at Whitby in Henrietta Street

• A Whitby Captain and his wife

• A Whitby Chaplain becomes a pirate

• Gristhorpe Bays shoreline and cliffs

• Charles Dickens - a true story of a Scarborough man and a Filey shipwreck

• John Woodall - a local gentleman important in the fishing industry by Anne and Paul Bayliss - reproduced from the Scarborough and District Civic Society

• The Port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century : An examination by John Rushton of the trade and merchant shipping in Scarborough in the late 1400's

• Hodds fishing family history and photos

• Naval records showing the movements of U-Boat U57 as it sank 29 trawlers in three days including 11 Scarborough trawlers - from documents provided by Gil Mayes of Fleetwood

• Pleasure boats - The Regal Lady and Coronia by George Westwood

• U-Boat attacks on Scarborough trawlers by Arthur Godfrey

•Steam Trawler liveries - Steam trawler funnel colours by Bill Blow

• Photos and descriptions of several Scarborough boats by George Westwood

• Some old Scarborough fishing stories from Ray Edmonds
• Various stories from Scarborough in the 1860's and 1870's

• Various stories from the Filey coast in the 1860's and 1870's

• Various stories from the Whitby coast in the 1860's and 1870's

• A huge storm in the 1800's along the coast of Yorkshire

• Superstitions and landslips in Runswick Bay

• A north east sea shanty about a great storm

• Charles Dickens - a description of the seaside graveyard in Filey and Scarborough

• Scarborough trawler disasters in the modern era

•First hand account of the Filey fishing in 1862

•Watching for the ships to return during terrible storms

• A sad day in the Wray family

• William Clowes - a ranter preacher who toured the fishing villages

• Scarboroughs own pirate radio station - Radio 270

•First hand account of the Filey tourism in 1862

• Children pinching herrings by the harbour

• The loss of the Admiral Von Tromp

•The history of Scarborough fishing in the North Sea

• Scarborough Spa and its history

• Local fishermen talk about superstitions in the Old Town

• Description of Scarborough's first Lifeboat

• Scarborough fishermen discuss heavy seas and weather

•Captain Paul Jones - short summary of history

• Captain Paul Jones - versus - Captain Pearson

•A Whitby shipwreck - the Captains story

•Scarborough Fisher folk discussing life in the harbour and Old Town

• Some never to be forgotten characters and eccentrics of Scarborough through the ages

• Captain Cooks Journal in Tahiti

• Crimlisk family history

• Fishing during the Second World War in Scarborough

• Attacks on Scarborough trawlers in World War II

• Rationing in World War II in Scarborough

• Entertainment in Scarborough during the Second World war

• The Regal Lady during Dunkirk

• Blackouts during WW2

• Scarboroughs Old Town and the fishing community

• A terrible ordeal for U-Boat victims

• An epic rescue in Robin Hoods Bay

• An epic rescue in Filey from 1799