Oct
30
2009
At, about 12 midnight Thursday, 8th, March, 1804, the inhabitants of Redcar were alarmed by a very heavy firing; thinking the enemy were off the coast, the drums were ordered to beat arms. The Sea Fencibles* commanded by Captain Thrush were, in a few minutes, on the sands, when it proved to be minute...
Oct
14
2009
The sinking of a smack ‘Caledonia’ The following photograph (copyright of museum, although not the ‘Caledonia’) was gratefully supplied to us by the Aberdeen Maritime Museum. A smack was an English sailing vessel that was used to bring the fish to market for most of the 19th century and even...
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