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Requests for further information Details required of Mary Amos Crawshaw Master. Vessel trading Leeds to Hull in1830's - Marlene - email Peter If you have any further information regarding William Pool then please email me and I will pass it on to Mr. Cerrino. Packet Steamer 'Isle of Axholme' plans for model construction - for Steve. Email Peter Any information on Goole Steamers before 1870 and any details of Captains, voyages or other anecdotes - for P.Scott - email Peter |
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Transport on the River Humber and Humber Rivers In Memory of George Beaumont (1888-1910) who died whilst serving aboard the Steam Packet 'Queen' in Hull . George Beaumont (1853-) who was a Ferryman on the Ouse. Thomas Phillipson who was Ferryman on the Trent at Owston Ferry.
Sailing ships were naturally the original vessel that navigated the tidal rivers of the Humber. Because of the nature of these rivers which has shallows, sand or mud banks, flat bottom vessels enabled them to remain upright even if grounded. The 'Humber Keel' was the most common type of vessel plying the larger rivers using a large square sail for propulsion. On the smaller rivers and later the canals propulsion started with man power then horse drawn until steam power came along, but the same low draught keel without the sail or with a mast which could be lowered was used so as to navigate the river with bridges. Fly-Boats were introduced to provide a fast delivery of goods especially between Leeds / Wakefield and Selby with the increase demand for wool and coal. Steam Packets in the mid 1800's carried passengers on the River Ouse between Hull, Goole, Selby and York. In 1834 the railway line between Leeds and Selby opened to passengers but if you wanted to travel onward to Goole or Hull then you had to catch the paddle-steamers known as Steam Packets. Ferries between the opposite sides of the rivers were numerous. Around Goole were several crossing by ferries - usually a flat raft looking vessel - Howdendyke, Saltmarshe, Swinefleet and Whitgift
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Royal Mail Stamp depicting the P & O Packet Steamer Penninsular 1888
Square Rigged Keel
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Further reading. The Yorkshire Ouse. Baron F. Duckham. Published by David and Charles. The Humber Ferries. Alun A. D'Orly. Publisher by N.V.N.G.R. The Aire & Calder Navigation. Peter L. Smith. Publisher Wakefield Historical Publications. Exploring the Yorkshire Ouse. Alison Waite. Published by Countryside Publishing Ltd. Life in the past around Snaith. Snaith Historical Society. Phillip's Inland Navigation 1805 The Early History Of Hull Steam Shipping The Trade and Shipping of Hull 1500-1700. Ralph Davis The Trade and Shipping of nineteenth century Hull. Joyce M Bellamy The Sailing Ships and Mariners of Knottingley. Ron Gosney & Rosemary Bowyer Planned to Death - The annihilation of a place called Howdendyke. J.Douglas Porteus Lloyds Registers Special Thanks to Goole Local Studies Library Selby Local Studies Library Thorne Library Gainsborough Library Thorne Local History Society Web Sites worth viewing To view an excellent restoration of a Humber Super Sloop visit www.spidert.co.uk Other brilliant sites are : - http://www.diplomate.freeserve.co.uk/whitton.htm http://www.thorne-moorends.gov.uk http://www.winteringham.info/Local_History/Haven/haven.html Photographs copyrighted and by permission of owners |
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