by CLYDEBRAE » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:42 pm
The Northern Daily Mail records that the 3 master motor schooner "Doris" was wrecked on 26th September 1930. She was on a voyage from Wick to Hartlepool, in ballast, and was scheduled to load a cargo of coal and coke to the agency of Casper Edgar. They refer to her as being of 218 tons, 11 years old, and with a crew of 9, including her Master. The crew were taken off by the Hartlepool lifeboat about noon that day, when the vessel was in dangerous proximity of the Longscar Rocks. She then drifted towards the Tees mouth and reportedly came ashore "a hundred yards or so of the Seaton side of the slag wall". In the 17th October edition it was reported that her back was broken and that she had been sold to the North-East Salvage and Shipbreaking Company with the comment:"An examination of the engines will be carried out shortly, and arrangements made for dismantling the vessel". In late November it was reported that the coxswain of the Hartlepool lifeboat, Robert Hood, had been awarded the RNLI Bronze Medal, and that he and his crew had also received extra monetary awards for their bravery in rescuing the crew of the Doris, when she was attempting to enter harbour in "a strong gale with a very heavy sea running".