| Description | Includes a partial index. One newscutting dates from 1908 but most newscuttings date from 1923 onwards and are taken from Goole newspapers. Topics covered include collisions, union action, economic activity at the port and the seafaring profession generally.
Includes loose photographs of damage incurred to 'Wenning' and 'Proteus'
Includes photographs of the following ships pasted into the book:
Launch of SS 'Dearne' (1924), SS 'Calder' ashore at Brough, wreck of SS 'Equity' wrecked in May 1920 off Alderney, ice conditions at Frederickshaven (Feb 1920), SS 'Saltmarshe' under repairs at Goole after damage by ice in Hamburg River (Feb 1920) (very faded photographs), SS 'River Ribble' ashore at Terneuzen (1923), SS 'Spen' under repairs at Goole after ice damage (1922), SS ['Mersey'] aground at Goole Reach, Blacktoft Pier damage by SS 'Hodder' (1923), SS 'Equity' beached on Norfolk coast after collision with SS 'Rena' (1925), SS 'Hodder' aground in River Ouse (1925), SS 'Don' in North Sea ice conditions (1929), SS 'Hessle' carrying out steam trial (nd.), TSS 'Duke of Clarence', SS 'Duke of Cornwall', SS 'Don' in Hamburg (1929), SS 'River Ribble' on passage Goole to Ghent (1929), SS 'Alt' Goole to Hamburg in ice conditions (1929), sailor on SS 'Aire' (1931), damage to SS 'Kinnaird Head' (1927), SS 'Saltmarshe', other ships stuck fast in River Elbe ice (1929)
Photograph of the RNR Commander, Commander Clementson, marine superintendant of LMS Railway [on the reverse the information that they are unveiling memorial tablet has been crossed out]
SS 'Dearne' aground at Faxfleet (1930), SS 'Calder' [launch] and wreck (nd.), SS 'Mersey' damage at Antwerp (nd), SS 'Duke of Clarence' at Troon and Captain Kelway's tug (nd), SS 'Spen' at Goole (1932), SS 'Wharfe' conveying railway coaches from Barrow to Belfast (1933)
Poem 'How the "Hodder" won the Golden Cock', transcript |