{"id":54202,"date":"2010-11-05T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54202"},"modified":"2016-12-13T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:22:20","slug":"wrecked-at-saltburn-7th-may-1924-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54202","title":{"rendered":"Wrecked at Saltburn, 7th May, 1924"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wrecked-at-Saltburn.-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1432\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wrecked-at-Saltburn.-1.jpg 1432w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wrecked-at-Saltburn.-1-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wrecked-at-Saltburn.-1-473x300.jpg 473w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wrecked-at-Saltburn.-1-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wrecked-at-Saltburn.-1-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1432px) 100vw, 1432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u2019Ovenbeg\u2019 was carrying a cargo of china clay from Fowey in Cornwall to Grangemouth in Scotland when she was driven ashore, just to the west of the pier, by a strong gale.\u00a0 This postcard view (by E. Graham of Redcar), shows the initial stage of this drama;\u00a0it was hoped to re-float her as the weather moderated during the day of 7th May.\u00a0 At nightfall the gales blew up again and repeatedly smashed the ship against the pier.\u00a0 Eventually\u00a0she broke through, causing a 70m gap, and finally washing up on the beach at the\u00a0other side of the pier,\u00a0a mangled wreck.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Kathleen Hicks, additional information from \u201dPiers of Disaster by Michael Easdown\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The \u2019Ovenbeg\u2019 was carrying a cargo of china clay from Fowey in Cornwall to Grangemouth in Scotland when she was driven ashore, just to the west of the pier, by a strong gale. This postcard view (by E. Graham of Redcar), shows the initial stage of this drama; it was hoped to re-float her [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shipwrecks","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54203,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54202\/revisions\/54203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}