Jan

15

2015

BOATS & SHIPS – The Wrecks Register

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Boats & Ships, Lifeboat

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Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 19/10/1877. THE WRECK REGISTER             A perusal of the annual Wreck Register, recently issued, for the year commencing on July 1, 1875 and ending on June 30, 1876, shows that the wrecks and casualties at sea have been more numerous...

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Jan

15

2015

SHIPWRECKS & GROUNDINGS – Whitby sloop ‘LIZZIE’ grounded Salt Scar Rocks

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Boats & Ships, Shipwrecks Part 2

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Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 26/10/1877. A WHITBY VESSEL ON REDCAR ROCKS.             About half- past eight o’clock on Saturday evening (20/10), the sloop Lizzie, of Whitby, (John Hind, master), from Whitby to South Shields with a cargo of scrap iron, struck...

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Jan

6

2015

EVENT – Boat Race at Redcar

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Boats & Ships, Events

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Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 14/09/1877. BOAT RACE AT REDCAR             A board race will take place at Redcar on Saturday the 15th, 1877, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. First Prize, A SIVER CUP, value £4 2nd Prize                                ...

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Dec

20

2014

BOATS & SHIPS – Collision between two sailing vessels Channel

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Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 28/09/1877 COLLISION BETWEEN TWO SAILING VESSELS             The collision between two sailing vessels in the Channel has directed attention to the position held by pilots. The law is very simple. Where his employment is not compulsory...

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Oct

24

2014

SHIPWRECKS & GROUNDINGS – Furnace lights mistaken by shipping

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Boats & Ships, Ships

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Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 26/08/1877 VESSELS ON REDCAR ROCKS             Within the last few days to vessels have been on Redcar Rocks, pointing to the necessity for some additional light on this part of the course. On Saturday night (20/08), about ten o’clock...

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Oct

22

2014

LAW & ORDER – The Merchant Shipping Act

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Boats & Ships, Law & Order

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 20/10/1877.  THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT. The following is a complete list of the Courts of Survey established by the recent Merchant Shipping Act on the North East Coast, with the persons authorised to act as judges. :- England: Berwick, Bellford,...

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Oct

3

2014

SHIPWRECKS & GROUNDINGS – Redcar Rocks “STAFFTTE”

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Boats & Ships, Shipwrecks Part 2

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 08/09/1876 ANOTHER SHIP ASHORE AT REDCAR             The North German brig “Stafftte” (Eduard Perrow, master) of Memel, bound for Hartlepool with timber and deals, she struck on the rocks called the Flashes, east of Redcar Pier,...

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Sep

9

2014

Shipwrecks & Groundings – “Emily” on Coatham Sands

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Boats & Ships

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 11/02/1876 WRECK OF THE TYNE-LADEN BARQUE NEAR REDCAR             Early on Sunday morning (06/02), the barque ‘Emily’, of Shields, (James Riddle, master), was wrecked in TeesBay, about 2 miles from Redcar. The vessel, which was of...

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May

25

2014

Shipwrecks & Groundings – Sloop “Margaretha” – Loss of life Redcar

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Boats & Ships

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Accreditation the Stockton Mercury 28/03/1857. SLOOP  “MARGARETHA” REDCAR LOSS OF LIFE              Between two and 3 o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday (22/03), a vessel apparently in great distress, and which afterwards proved to be the sloop Margaredtha, Mienen, of and from Carolinensicl...

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Feb

23

2014

SHIPWRECK – ENGLANDS’ ROSE

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Accreditation FB Zetland Lifeboat Museum ‘ENGLANDS ROSE’ Often recorded as the ‘Rose of England’, the proper name is ‘Englands Rose’. She was a three masted schooner, on her way from Yarmouth to Hartlepool in ballast, when she struck Saltscar rocks. When she struck...

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