On the evening of February 9, the wind died away and many took shelter in Bridlington Bay at anchor waiting for a favourable wind. In the early hours of February 10, the wind started to rise.

A church service has been held to remember the lives of dozens of sailors killed more than 150 years ago when a violent storm hit the East Yorkshire coast. Seventy men died and about 30 vessels ...

A painting of the Bridlington RNLI Lifeboat 'Robert Whitworth' during the Great Gale, by artist Don Micklethwaite, which is on display at Bridlington Lifeboat Station. A church service has been ...