Broken Glasses by Tom Kelly
As part of the 'North East People's Archive' project, we've asked folk of the North East to submit stories and mementos from some of...
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David Kidd
- Aug 5, 2021
- 20 min
Mutiny on the Ostrich
This story is a fictionalised account of a real event. If there was ever a ghost ship sighted off the Leas at South Shields one...
Andy Ashwell
- Feb 28, 2021
- 4 min
Lost Without Trace - HMS Wasp and Lt BJH Adamson
In this weeks feature Andy Ashwell explores the tale of HMS Wasp, a Tyne built ship sadly lost in the seas off of Singapore, as well as a...
David Kidd
- Oct 25, 2020
- 19 min
Every Man for Himself: The Tragedy of the Gipsy Queen
John Dunn was still half asleep when he boarded the Gipsy Queen at the New Quay steamboat landing, North Shields, just before 5am on the mor
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