{"id":69876,"date":"2011-01-17T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=69876"},"modified":"2022-02-05T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:26:24","slug":"spiral-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=69876","title":{"rendered":"Spiral 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spiral-1915-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69875\" width=\"730\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spiral-1915-a-1.jpg 1150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spiral-1915-a-1-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spiral-1915-a-1-422x300.jpg 422w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spiral-1915-a-1-150x107.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spiral-1915-a-1-400x285.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A lovely set of images as part of a Graham postcard concerning the steam collier Spiral stranded on Salt Scar rocks.&nbsp;Fred Brunskill advises: \u201dThe \u2018Spiral\u2019 laden with coal was aground on Saltscar rocks for some weeks and some local fishermen were employed to dump the cargo to lighten the vessel, this was successful and the \u2018Spiral\u2019 was re-floated and taken to Hartlepool for urgent repairs.<\/strong><br><strong>The \u2018Fifi and Charles\u2019 was Redcar\u2019s lifeboat at the time and was often used to ferry the local men backwards and forwards to the ship. The above photo-montage was taken as soldiers from the local army camp assisting the launching crew. At that time horses and manpower was the only was of launching and retrieving the lifeboats.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Fred Brunskill for that update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lovely set of images as part of a Graham postcard concerning the steam collier Spiral stranded on Salt Scar rocks.&nbsp;Fred Brunskill advises: \u201dThe \u2018Spiral\u2019 laden with coal was aground on Saltscar rocks for some weeks and some local fishermen were employed to dump the cargo to lighten the vessel, this was successful and [&#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-69876","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\/69876","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=69876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69881,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69876\/revisions\/69881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}