Christmas at Sea
This Christmas post is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson who was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel,… Read More »Christmas at Sea
Posts relating to stormy weather
This Christmas post is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson who was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel,… Read More »Christmas at Sea
Ferocious storms battered the English coasts in October, 1880. In this extract, reported in the ‘Scarborough Mercury’, we read about the heroic rescues undertaken by… Read More »Ferocious storms and fearless lifeboat crews, 1880
This extract is from an article by Audrey Faith Parker, ‘An eventful trip in a Tubby Little Ship’, originally published in Yachting Monthly, November 1947.… Read More »From Beaumaris to Weymouth in a ‘tubby little ship’, 1947
The English East Coast town of Deal was well known to mariners in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this extract, Daniel Defoe describes the disastrous… Read More »Loss of ships on the Kentish shore, 1703
Many ships have been lost off the westernmost rocks of the Isles of Scilly, one of the most well known disasters being the loss of… Read More »Bishop Rock and Wolf Rock: on passage to Scilly
Still challenged by unfavourable winds and rain several of the RBC60 fleet decided to spend a few nights in Lowestoft to await a weather window… Read More »OGA60 fleet: Lowestoft to Ipswich
This post has the words and a recording by ‘The Longest Johns’ for a sea shanty about a storm off the east coast of England,… Read More »Three score and ten
A dramatic, well-documented rescue takes place on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, 7 September, 1838. The rescue of just nine survivors by lighthouse-keeper,… Read More »Grace Darling: a gallant rescue, 1838
The OGA60 Round Britain Cruise fleet enjoyed a blustery weekend on the River Tay, hosted by the Scotland Area of the OGA. ‘Windbreker’, ‘Bonita’, ‘Onward… Read More »OGA60 fleet: a stormy weekend in Dundee