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...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 12/10/1877 LADEN VESSEL ON REDCAR ROCKS             The schooner Hopewell, of Wells (Thos. Parr, master) from Hartlepool to Wells,, coal laden, struck on the Saltscar rocks, of Redcar, half-past six o’clock on Friday morning, it being...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 19/10/1877 VIOLENT GALE             The first of four storms of which we have been warned from New York swept over the British Islands with unusual violence on Sunday night (14/10) and Monday (15/10). The weather in Redcar and the neighbourhood...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the Sea Gazette 15/12/1876 EXCITING SCENES AT HARTLEPOOL A STEAMER ASHORE             A tremendous E.S.E. gale broke over the district about midnight on Tuesday (12/12 ), and accompanied by a perfect deluge of rain which continued with more or less...

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,...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn News 17/12/1874 ANOTHER STORM SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE The Hartlepools             A terrible Gale prevailed during Saturday (12/12) night and Sunday (13/12), and was attended with great loss of life. The wind was from the north-east. The schooner ‘Lady...

         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.          ...