In Scarborough‘s South Bay a wreck of an old wooden boat is exposed when the sand is washed away by strong tides. It is believed that the wreck is in fact the local Yawl Vivid built in Yarmouth in 1861 The Vivid was a ship of 36 registered tonnes. It was owned by Henry Wyrill of Scarborough and was first registered in Scarborough 6/3/1869.
The local lute sterned Yawls worked herring nets and basket lines and carried a small boat to haul the lines called a calf but pronounced corf, and was worked by 6 men and 3 boys usually from the workhouse.
She was lost whilst entering Scarborough Harbour in a northerly gale 8/11/1888 under command of the skipper Ballasette.