beverley yates – Sailing By: Tales from our oceans, seas, coasts and inland waterways

Shipwreck, explosion and loss of life: Calf of Man, 1852

This extract is from the Illustrated London News, 8 January 1853 and reports on a horrific shipwreck and explosion with[…]

The Morecambe Fishermen’s Association provided their own lifeboats. The first was ‘Gyakhan’, a large rowing boat built in 1895, the[…]

Everson’s yard on the River Deben, Suffolk produced one of the first series production yachts on the English East Coast,[…]

Originally built as a yacht by Crossfields of Arnside in north west England, ‘Moya’ had truly luxurious accommodation reported on[…]

We bring a report from the December, 2016 Hobart to Sydney race, another historic event sadly cancelled, for the first[…]

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel, despite poor health.[…]

Crossfields of Arnside were prolific boatbuilders on the north west coast of England from the 1840s until 1950s. Sadly, the[…]

The North Sea is renowned for its storms, which could spring up from nowhere, leaving few safe havens along the[…]

The English East Coast town of Deal was well known to mariners in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this[…]

Going to Yarmouth by road or rail can often be relaxing and fast (usually from Norwich it takes no more[…]