Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 29/10/1869. WRECKED SCHOONER – SALTBURN. The wrecked Schooner “John,” which belonged to Mr Alexander Ross, of Tain, in Ross-shire, still lies embedded in the sands, not far from the promenade pie r. It has been ascertained that...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 26/11/1869. SHIP ASHORE AT REDCAR TWO OF THE CREW DROWNED. Tuesday night (22/11), a vessel, the brig “Dawson,” Capt Barker, from Hamburg to Newcastle in ballast, struck on the Salt Scar rocks off Redcar, and two of the crew met with...

Shipwrecks off our coast. no images were found      

A Smack Fishing Vessel Smack Fishing Vessel frequently seen 1800’s/100 around the Tees Estuary. Carried other cargoes apart from fish. Photograph and copyright by courtesy of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum.

A Greenland whaler, named the “Esk”, of Whitby, Captain Dunbar, from Greenland to Whitby, (out of the port of Tyne returning to its home port of Whitby) with a cargo of oil, was driven in a storm from the N.E. on to Marske sands and became a total wreck. Out of the crew of 27, only 3 were...

The sinking of a smack The following photograph (copyright of museum, although not the ‘Caledonia’) was gratefully supplied to us by the Aberdeen Maritime Museum. These type of vessels were to be seen around the Tees Estuary during the Late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Photograph courtesy...

STORA-KORSNAS        LINK I, ex NERLANDIA, ex JOLLY ORO, ex TOR NERLANDIA Date of Loss: 5th November 1991 Depth: 38m (Lowest astronomical depth) Reference: 54 37’.600 N 000 53’.358 W Location: 3.5 miles N of Skinningrove STORA-KORSNAS I (Official No.7230680) was a steel roll-on/roll-off...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 22/2/1890 TERRIBLE COLLISION OFF HARTLEPOOL           A terrible collision, resulting, it is feared, in the loss of nearly whole of a vessel’s crew occurred off the Hartlepool’s. The colliding vessels were the “Brino” (Captain...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 06/12/1884. LAUNCH OF NEW LIFE BOAT AT REDCAR           On Monday afternoon (01/12), a mew life-boat, which has been sent by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to replace the “Burton-on-Trent”, was launched at Redcar in the presence...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 11/10/188.  Shipwreck Near Saltburn EXCITING SCENE           About 2am on Friday (10/10) morning a strong gale began to blow from the North-West. About 4 a.m. the man on the lookout at Saltburn discerned a vessel labouring hard to make...