SS Gatwick
23rd
March 1928
The 2000ton steam ship
"Gatwick" of London was
on light passage from Southampton
to Sunderland when on Friday
morning she ran ashore on North
Cheek. There was a heavy south
east swell and thick fog. The
alarm was soon raised by sounding
the vessel’s siren, the Mary
Ann Lockwood was quickly launched
and the Rocket Apparatus taken
along the beach. Chief Officer
Bartlett of Robin Hood's Bay
Coastguard soon established
communication with the crew of
the stranded steamer.
As the tide was at half ebb at the time
of the stranding it was decided to attempt
to refloat the "Gatwick" as the
spring tide flowed. Coxswain Oliver Storm
and the crew of the Lifeboat "Mary Ann
Lockwood" ran out a kedge anchor and
at 3pm the steamer was released and was able
to proceed under her own steam to Sunderland.
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