BULLERS OF BUCHAN TRAGEDY

Findlay Collection, Wistow Hall

Gordon Findlay has kindly provided a copy of The Evening Gazette, published in Aberdeen on Friday, January 19th, 1912 (cost one halfpenny). It features the following graphic account of the loss of the Wistow Hall and its crew on page 5 of this broadsheet publication,...

THE REGISTER. ADELAIDE. SATURDAY JANUARY 20 1912

Wistow Hall

Image created for creatative purposes by Cruden Bay Life An article from THE REGISTER, a newspaper published in Adelaide, Australia, on Saturday, 20th January 1912. WRECK OF WISTOW HALLTERRIBLE EXPERIENCES Further particulars have been received concerning the wreck of...

Accident Inquiry Report – Wistow Hall (SS)

Wistow Hall

(No. 7535.) “WISTOW HALL” (S.S.). The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. In the matter of a Formal Investigation held at Liverpool on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 14th days of May, 1912, before STUART DEACON, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, assisted by Vice-Admiral JOHN...

An Account of the Wistow Hall Shipwreck

Wistow Hall

Image created for creatative purposes by Cruden Bay Life Wistow Hall The Buchan coast between Slains Castle and Buchanness, with its towering cliffs and jagged rocks has always been an area dreaded by shipping in winter, particularly before the invention of wireless...

The importance of Lascar Sailors in the early 1900’s

Wistow Hall

Image created for creatative purposes by Cruden Bay Life This article explores how early-20th-century British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, portrayed Lascar seamen—sailors from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa—as visibly out of place in Britain. A...