Okay gentlemen and ladies, a week off and it hasn’t done me any good at all because I am still asking for your help. What ship and which rocks? Joan Webster advised: “I think that ship was at Redcar, I remember a ship stuck on the rocks there, but not sure if it is that one!” Craig White has assisted with: “After a hunch this was under cliffs somewhere in our area. Web research ( OK googling!) gives that this is the S.S. Hermiston which ran aground at North Cheek, Robin Hoods Bay on 19th May 1910 in thick fog while on passage from Antwerp to Shields. She was built on the Clyde in 1901 and they must have got her off because she was not scrapped until 1937. Robin Hoods Bay Lifeboat ‘Mary Anne Lockwood’ attended.”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Joan Webster, Dave Hobman and Alan Davies; but particularly Craig White for the updates.
Sorry I don’t know the name of the vessel but it is a ship not a boat
Not Redcar rocks, looks like a ‘below the cliffs’ somewhere rock shelf.
There’s a long list of ships wrecked off Redcar,possibly 10+. Without a name it’s hard to trace.
After a hunch this was under cliffs somewhere in our area.
Web research ( OK googling !) gives that this is the S.S. Hermiston which ran aground at North Cheek, Robin Hoods Bay on 19th May 1910 in thick fog while on passage from Antwerp to Shields.
She was built on the Clyde in 1901 and they must have got her off because she was not scrapped until 1937.
Robin Hoods Bay Lifeboat ‘Mary Anne Lockwood’ attended.