page_title: Yorkshire coast fishery
section_title: Accidents and incidents
hierarchical_section_title: Yorkshire coast fishery / Accidents and incidents
caption_attribution_description: English: Chapel Street and the Fishermans Memorial, Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The photograph shows the Fishermans Memorial on Chapel Street close to the junction with Carter Lane Post Office Street and Tower Street. On a plaque https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1768892 at the base it carries the following inscription: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS TO COMMEMORATE THE CONSPICUOUS ACT OF BRAVERY OF THE CREW OF THE COBLE "TWO BROTHERS." GEORGE GIBBON, MELCHOIR CHADWICK THOMAS LENG MAJOR WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN A GALLANT ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE CREW OF THE COBLE "GLEANER." JOHN CROSS HIS TWO SONS ROBERT CROSS RICHARD MAJOR CROSS OF FLAMBOROUGH WHO ALL PERISHED NEAR THE WEST SCAR NORTH LANDING IN THE GREAT GALE FEBRUARY 5TH, 1909 Follow this http://www.flamborough-pc.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/category.jsp?categoryID=56776 , which describes the circumstances of the loss. For a photograph of a Flamborough memorial to a loss in 1984, click here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774347 . - - - See also this photograph by J Thomas, 1212599.
context_page_description: The Yorkshire coast fishery has been a mainstay of the economy of the Yorkshire and Humber region for centuries. The fishing industry has been in decline since the mid to late 20th century due to many factors such as labour problems, fishing quotas and decommissioning schemes. Historically, the ports at Hull and Whitby have been important locations for the landing and processing of fish and shellfish. This industry continues today at both locations though on a smaller scale, and both have fish processing industries too. Bridlington has now become the largest shellfish port in Europe, regularly exporting its catch abroad, mostly to European countries.
  The ceremonial counties of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire had many ports both small and large where sea catch was landed.
  The Yorkshire region is the second largest fishing industry in the United Kingdom in terms of the number of people who work in the industry. Fish is landed commercially at four ports in Yorkshire; Bridlington, Hull, Scarborough and Whitby
context_section_description: 5 February 1909 – A fleet of 40 or 50 cobles were fishing in the bay off the North Landing when a gale "whipped the sea up into mountainous waves". The three occupants of one boat, Gleaner, found themselves washed overboard and another boat the Two Brothers, stopped to help the stricken men. The one boat with six men was then upturned by another rogue wave and all six drowned within sight of the shore and beyond the reach of the lifeboat. A memorial was later installed in the village to commemorate the dead.
  9 January 1935 – The trawler, The Edgar Wallace, was coming into port at St Andrews Dock in Hull, when it hit a sandbank and capsized. Water rushed into the cabins and 15 members of her crew drowned, with the three survivors swept overboard, but being rescued by passing ships.
  25–26 January 1955 – the trawlers Lorella and Rodrigo were in a safe haven off Iceland, sitting out a ferocious storm. Another trawler, the Kingston Garnet, was nearby with her propeller fast on some wire in the sea. Both the Lorella and the Rodrigo left what was described as "[a] comfy place, but they went back into that living hell to try and save those guys." Both ships foundered when ocean spray froze instantly on the rigging, normally 0.5 inches (13 mm) thick, but swelling to 7 inches (180 mm) thick with the frozen water. Both ships rolled over and up until the last minute, they were still radioing what was happening. 40 men lost their lives in the sinking; no bodies were found. Both ships were lost 90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) off of Icelands' North East Cape.
  Arctic Viking (1961)
  Hull triple trawler tragedy (1968)
  FV Gaul (1974)
  October 1976 – The trawler Admiral Von Tromp set out from the port of Scarborough with her destination being the Barnacle Banks some 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) north east of Scarborough. Somehow she ended up stranded on Saltwick Nab some 90 degrees off course. the man at the wheel and one other deckhand drowned that night, the others were rescued by the Whitby Lifeboat or washed ashore. At the inquest into the sinking, a nautical expert claimed that even if the ship had been left to her own devices, she would not have foundered on Saltwick Nab. The inquest concluded that the wheelman had piloted the vessel onto the rocks deliberately.
caption: Chapel Street and the Fishermans Memorial in Flamborough
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