Shipwrecks of Robin Hood's Bay

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Shipwrecks of Robin Hood's Bay

 
 

Up to 1900

 
 

1900 to 2000

 
 

Life Boats

 
 

Coast Guards

 

1900

January 2nd

"Knud"

SS

725ton of Copenhagen landed 13 became a total loss.

1900

April 30th

"Star of Bethlehem"

Coble

of Scarborough Lifeboat assisted.

1901

April 30th

"Fearless"

Trawler

100ton stranded on Blea Wyke.

1901

November 13th

"Zanetta"

SS

1334ton Stranded near Ravenscar.

1902

 

Mary Ann Lockwood

Lifeboat

Lifeboat 19 "Joann" exRNLI Stationed at Bay..

1903

May 4th

"Puritan"

Trawler

Aground at Peak Point, Ravenscar.

1903

September 20th

"Eva"

Ketch

of Lowestoft Landed 3.

1903

September 19th

"Prime Minister" & "Otter"

Trawlers

Ran aground Hayburn Wyke and Peak.

1903

December 15th

"Etruria"

Trawler

Aground at Ravenscar.

1904

July 25th

"Kaiser"

SS

Aground on Blea Wyke, Ravenscar.

1905

November 12th

"Vesta" & "Victor"

 

Sunk off Bay.

1908

January 14th

"Mandalay"

Trawler

148ton Stranded at Ravenscar.

1908

September

"Unity"

 

Run down off Bay.

1908

December 29th

"Repero"

Trawler

Lifeboat driven ashore. Lives saved 9.

1909

July

"Olive Branch"

Coble

of Robin Hood's Bay. Lives saved 2.

1910

May 19th

"Hermiston"

SS

of Glasgow. Females saved 2 and Assistance.

1910

November 9th

"Robert and Mary"

Coble

of Whitby. Assistance.

1910

December 30th

Cobles

 

of Robin Hood's Bay. Lifeboat stood by cobles.

1911

March 29/30th

"Dunmail"

SS

Stranded Ness point. Lives saved 15.

1912

October 31st

""Lily" and "Providence""

Cobles

of Robin Hood's Bay. Lifeboat stood by.

1913

January 11th

"Coronation"

SS

Aground at Ravenscar. Towed to Hartlepool & burnt out.

1915

March 18th

"Emily" "Eva" and "Brothers 3"

Cobles

of Robin Hood's Bay. Lifeboat stood by.

1917

January 10th

"Majestic"

 

159ton Stranded at Bay.

1917

March 28th

"Oakwell"

 

248ton Mined 3miles North East off North Cheek. 4 lives lost.

1917

March 29th

"Kathleen Lily"

SS

521ton Mined 2miles East off N.Cheek. 4 lives lost

1917

April 11th

"Quaggy"

SS

993ton Mined 3miles East off N.Cheek. 3 lost

1917

July 22nd

"Glow"

SS

1141ton Torpedoed off South Cheek.1 life lost

1917

October

"Lady Helen"

SS

811ton Mined 1/2 East off South Cheek. 7 lives lost.

1917

November 4th

"Gimle"

SS

1131ton Torpedoed off Blea Wyke.

1917

November 7th

"Suntrap"

SS

1353ton Torpedoed 21/2 miles East of South Cheek

1917

December 5th

"Aigburth"

SS

824ton Torpedoed off Bay. 11 lives lost.

1917

December 7th

"Highgate"

SS

1780ton Torpedoed 21/2 miles East of South Cheek.

1918

January 11th

"Winston"

SS

of Glasgow. Assisted.

1918

January 22nd

"Torquay"

SS

of Portsmouth. War loss. Landed 17.

1918

March 14th

"Castleford"

SS

1741ton Torpedoed off Bay

1918

March 29th

"Swallow"

SS

243ton Collision off Bay.

1918 May 8th "Constantia" SS 772ton 2 miles E of Peak. 3 lives lost

1918

May 10th

"Naparima"

SS

1677ton War loss off Blea Wyke.

1918

June 16th

"Melanie"

SS

2996ton Torpedoed 2miles E of S.Cheek. 5 lives lost.

1918

June 29th

"Florentia"

SS

3688 ton Torpedoed off Bay. 5 lives lost

1918

June 29th

"Herdis"

SS

1157ton 7miles from South Cheek.

1918

July 27th

UB-107

Submarine

600ton U-Boat belived sunk by depth charge off Ravenscar (Wreck now identified off Flambourgh).

1918

August 14th

"Wallsend"

SS

2697ton Torpedoed 1mile S of S.Cheek.

1918

September 6th

"Audax"

SS

975ton Tropedoed off Ness. 3 lives lost

1918

September 26th

"Paul"

SS

659ton War loss off Blea Wyke

1919

Feb 22nd

"Tynesider"

SS

At Nance (Lance) Cliff. Landed 7 .

1919

October 24/5th

"Cap Palos"

Schooner

of Vancouver. Landed 6 .

1920

April 3rd

"Brittannia"

SS

Sank off Mill Beck. Landed 16.

1923

February 10th

"Premier"

SS

of Grimsby. Stranded 3 miles South of Bay. Landed 9.

1927

August 6th

"Ben Read"

SS

Lifeboat stood by. Refloated.

1928

March 23rd

"Gatwick"

SS

of London. Assistance.

1929

March 10th

"Elvier"

SS

of Wallsend. Assistance .

1930

April 25th

"Star of the East"

Trawler

Ashore Ravenscar Rocks.

1930's

 

"Atalanta"

Yatch

Ashore Ravenscar. Lead keel in Peak Hole.

1931

 

Mary Ann Lockwood

Lifeboat

Sold out of service

1936

January 26th

"Heatherfield"

 

449ton, Classic breechers buoy rescue. See play

1936

September 2nd

"Harvest Queen"

 

wrecked while salvaging "Heatherfield".

1940

 

"Whitetoft"

 

loaded with iron ore?

1941

January 15th

"Woodstock"

 

958ton War loss off Bay.

1941

February 15th

"Paris"

SS

aground at Mill Beck after a collision.

1941

May 2nd

"Beaumanior"

SS

2477ton Bombed off Bay.

1941

July 4th

"Balfron"

 

362ton Bombed off Bay.

1941

November 10th

Junkers JU-88

Bomber

Shot down near Blea Wyke.

1942

January 13th

"Lerwick"

 

5626ton Built 1938. Bombed by enemy aircraft off North Cheek sank with loss of five lives.

1946

October 11th

"Glamorgan-Brook"

 

850ton Sunk off Bay.

1948/9

 

"Durham Brook"

SS

 

1951

September 5th

"Aucuba"

 

211ton Collision off Bay .

1958

 

"Thrift"

SS

Ness Point.

1965

November 27th

"Fred Everard"

MV

1542ton Aground Ravenscar.

1967

January 24th

"Egton"

MV

Aground Ness Point.

1976

September 30th

Admiral Van Tromp

Trawler

Aground at Saltwick.

   

"Lady Serita"

 

??

1991

October 18th

Small Drilling Rig

 

Wecked on Cowling scaur

1994

January 20th

"Sarb-J"

Trawler

Aground Ness

         
       

"Ralph Harrison" aground under Ness