A List of Ten Publications that Reference Humber Sloops
Humber sloops, which are sometimes confused with Billy boys or Humber keels, were single-masted sailing barges that navigated the East Coast of England as well as the inland waterways of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Goole, Grimsby, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds and Wakefield were among the settlements that were accessible to larger Humber sloops while London was also visited by these trading vessels. Blakeney, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft are known to have been visited by Billy boys, Humber keels and Humber sloops. Norfolk and Suffolk, which formed the region of East Anglia, was home to a number of coastal settlements that would be visited by East Coast traders. Shipwrecks were not uncommon and life-boats were often sent to rescue mariners whose sloops had run aground on sandbanks, struck rocks or foundered in storms. Richard and Three Brothers , which originated from Goole, are two examples of Humber sloops that were wrecked off the coast of East Anglia. I...