Redcar Fishing Cobles & Double Enders Cobles   Traditionally Redcar has always had a mixture of craft working from the flat beaches. Cobles generally are the larger boats and are an ideal boat for the North East coast. Originally clinker built from larch on oak, the boats were often ‘powered’...

01/06/2010 Foying Boat and gangway shown on Redcar Beach Long gone now are fishermen foying for a living. During the summer months and holiday season, many a fisherman could be seen with his fishing boat plying for hire along the waterline with his boat alongside a wooden gangway. The above is a perfect...

“ZETLAND” Redcar’s Jewel in the Crown The “Zetland” lifeboat, and how it has become a visitor attraction along the Esplanade at Redcar. Many thanks go to the Zetland Museum for the assistance in putting this page together, and in particular F. Brunskill. (2010) It was the...

 THE ZETLAND LIFEBOAT    The Zetland Lifeboat is the oldest preserved lifeboat in the world, and plays a great part of Redcar’s’ history.      Zetland was built at South Shields in the early 1800’s by Henry Greathead. As a result of being bought by fishermen at Redcar for £100,...

YAWL OR YOLE Fishing was the first known industry in Redcar YAWL or YOLE – definition – (1) A two masted fore and aft sailing boat with the mizzen-mast stepped far aft. (2) A small kind of fishing boat (3) A ship’s jolly boat with four or six oars The word YAWL or YOLE relates to a...

         At present our shipwrecks lists Part 1 to 3 contain vessels that have come to grief (for whatever reason) on our notorious coastline – Hartlepool Bay – Estuary of River Tees, Redcar to Staithes.          ...

OVENBERG ? An extraordinary story surrounds a wreck that occurred at Saltburn, nearly 20 years ago (1924) is told by Mr Charles O’Connor, now of London who was a cook on board the ill fated “Ovenberg”. Mr O’Connor gives one to understand that the vessel was haunted by a ghost...

  Lifeboats at Redcar Zetland                                     1802  – 1864 United Free Gardeners               1877 – 1898 Known locally as the         ‘Emma’   Sir James Knottwas the last of the traditional lifeboats...

REDCAR – A DAY TO REMEMBER Whit Monday, 28th, May 1860 Whit Monday, 28th, May, 1860, was a day to remember in the lives of everyone, lifeboat men, fishermen, the residents of Redcar, and people further afield. A storm blew up that wrecked 23 vessels. An East, North Easterly heavy gale on this occasion...

         At present our shipwrecks lists Part 1 to 3 contain vessels that have come to grief (for whatever reason) on our notorious coastline – Hartlepool Bay – Estuary of River Tees, Redcar to Staithes.          ...